Culture

Italian designer Filippo Sorcinelli talks with NCR about sacred beauty and creating vestments for three different popes.

Bubba Weiler's off-Broadway show is about two eighth-grade altar servers whose encounter with a homeless man in the church leaves them asking questions about Catholicism, God and, ultimately, themselves.  

The producer, rapper, husband and father has been on a spiritual journey for several years, culminating in his conversion to Catholicism this year at the Easter Vigil. 

The new text from journalist Theresa Laurence covers a woman who battled racism and educational neglect in Nashville for more than four decades.

From childhood, Steven Spielberg was taught that the most important spiritual act he could do is listen. His filmography upholds it.

A group of altar boys, frustrated by the indifference of the adults in their Catholic parish, decide to wire the confessional so they can right social wrongs on their own.

 "For centuries," writes Vanessa R. Corcoran, "attacks on female religious imagery have continued (outpacing vandalism against images of Jesus), and have typically been orchestrated by men."

The Wounded Church develops what Annie Selak describes as a "feminist ecclesiology of injury," an approach that begins with lived experiences of harm rather than idealized visions of what the church ought to be.