While at least one the nominees for Best Picture has an obvious Catholic angle, the other nominees touch on themes that will resonate with Catholics and other believers: love, reconciliation, brokenness and our human longing to be known.

These movies are appearing at a time when our country’s leadership is treating many groups as outsiders who do not belong in the United States.

"Black Panther" is an Afrofuturistic superhero film set in the fictional nation of Wakanda.

“For the Paulists part of the mission is supposed to be reaching out to the unchurched.” The best ways to do that are constantly shifting. These contemporary leaders of Paulist Productions look on that fluid landscape with optimism.

The Best Picture winner is soaked in what Bernard Lonergan called ‘startling strangeness.’

To see P. T. Anderson's new film as merely beautiful is simply not to see it.