by Bishop Robert Barron . September 24, 2019 .

The new film The Goldfinch is based on a novel by Donna Tartt, who is not only a great novelist but also a Catholic, and I think her Catholicism comes through especially clearly in the spiritual lesson of this story.

by Bishop Robert Barron . August 8, 2019 .

I’m a big fan of Quentin Tarantino’s movies. At the heart of a lot of them is a moral vision; the characters are compelled, under extreme duress, to make a moral choice. His latest film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” struck me the same way. It’s a rather extraordinary…

by Matthew Becklo . July 31, 2019 .

by Word on Fire . July 15, 2019 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . June 20, 2019 .

As I watched the third installment of the “John Wick” franchise, I thought of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and his metaphor for life and death.

by Rachel Bulman . May 8, 2019 .

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . April 10, 2019 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . April 9, 2019 .

We stand at a pivotal point in the great moral debate over abortion in our country—not because new arguments have emerged, but rather because laws so breathtaking in their barbarism have been passed, and a film so visceral in its presentation of the reality of abortion has found a wide audience.

by Bishop Robert Barron . April 9, 2019 .

Nos encontramos en un punto crucial del gran debate moral sobre el aborto en nuestro país, no porque hayan surgido nuevos argumentos, sino porque se han aprobado leyes tan impresionantes en su barbarie, y una película tan visceral en su presentación de la realidad del aborto ha encontrado una amplia audiencia.

by Bishop Robert Barron . January 24, 2019 .

The film “Bird Box,” based on a British novel of the same name, started streaming on Netflix around Christmas time. Starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich, it is a taut thriller that manages, perhaps despite itself, to shed considerable light on the parlous spiritual condition of contemporary culture.