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Three Key Ways Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Timelessly Compelling

Dr. Kody W. Cooper

July 28, 2026

The film is true to the original in three key ways in which it portrays the world and captures the imagination: as moralistic, as providentially governed, and familistic. 

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Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’: Seeing Homer’s Story Through Epic Tradition

Dr. Alex Taylor

July 28, 2026

Nolan’s portrayal of the good of hospitality, the danger of rational control’s abuse of that good, and the penitential possibility of exile all become apparent through epic tradition.

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The Shepherd Cannot Run: Bl. Stanley Rother

Isabelle Larivee

July 28, 2026

“The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger. Pray for me, that I might be a sign of the coming of Christ for these good people.”

Chesterton Prescribes Sanity to Escape Our Modern Monoculture

Nora Kenney Mittiga

July 27, 2026

We must insist upon human particularity over dehumanizing systems, cultivation over manufacture, creation over consumption, and life over the culture of death.

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Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Did Homer Much Honor

Dr. Tod Worner

July 24, 2026

Homer’s epic is a masterpiece of the vexing, inspiring, unresolvable, God-kissed human condition. In Nolan’s attempt to bring it to life, he succeeded. 

Boys Will Be Boys: The B. P. J. Supreme Court Decision

Henry T. Edmondson III

July 24, 2026

Whatever the future holds, those opposing the revolutionary aims of the trans rights movement may find that an appeal to “normality” is ineffective.

The Liturgy of the Hours in the Fabric of Life

Nell O’Leary

July 23, 2026

Could it be that my family (and your own) is beckoned to come and join in this tender and strong voice of Christ to address our Father?

Christopher Nolan’s Modern Man Is Perpetually Adrift

Fr. Mike Johns

July 22, 2026

Nolan has long prepared the cinematic ground for this disconcerting proposition.

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Is Being Virtuous Good for Your Health? 

Dr. Ken May

July 21, 2026

An insidious version of the false prosperity gospel continues to haunt us: If I have faith in God and live according to Jesus’s teachings, I will have health, wealth, and…

How Catholic Schools Can Cultivate the Sacramental Imagination

Dr. Ryan Messmore

July 20, 2026

The sacramental imagination is a capacity for perception schools should cultivate by teaching students to see all things in the light of Christ.

Evangelization & Culture Spotlight
Caravaggio: Sacred Art, Profane Life
Matthew Malone

Never has there been another artist who embodied such extremes—fugitive, street brawler, hedonist, and murderer—and yet created the most intense, sublime, and transcendent images in Catholic history.

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Evangelization & Culture Journal Highlight
Is Being Virtuous Good for Your Health?
Dr. Ken May

An insidious version of the false prosperity gospel continues to haunt us: If I have faith in God and live according to Jesus’s teachings, I will have health, wealth, and happiness.

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The College Beat from Evangelization & Culture
‘I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now’
THE COLLEGE BEAT: ONE YEAR ON — By Dr. Tod Worner

Thank you to all of our young writers and to all who have read their work and written to us about them. The College Beat will return in September with the opening of the new school year.

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