Voices

John Dougherty is the director of mission and ministry at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia, Pa.
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“Newsies” is the rare family-friendly musical that also serves as thematically appropriate Labor Day viewing.
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Gaston is troubling because he is the Disney villain who resonates most with reality: It’s unlikely that we’ll encounter an Ursula or a Jafar, but we all know a Gaston.
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Torn between religious devotion and his own children, Tevye struggles to hold onto his faith in a new and uncertain world.
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In “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” the ordinary becomes operatic and the everyday becomes extraordinary.
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Living a double life requires lying to everyone around you, but it also requires lying to yourself.
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“Singin’ in the Rain” inspires us to meet pivotal moments with creativity, cooperation and a desire to achieve the greatest possible good.
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Would you believe that there’s a Jesuit rom-com? It sounds like a joke, but that is a fairly accurate description of “Crossroads,” a 2006 film written and directed by Murray Robinson.
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The protagonist of “Porco Rosso” is a pig literally and metaphorically: He’s rude, cocksure and a notorious womanizer.
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“The Godfather Part III” (1990) is the most explicitly Catholic entry in the series.
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Despite his performative Catholicism, Michael Corleone puts more stock in the American vision of freedom than the Christian one.