Voices
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The Rev. Robert E. Lauder is a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn and a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University, N.Y. He is the author of several books, including Pope Francis’ Profound Personalism and Poverty and Pope Francis’ Spirituality and Our Story.
Ideas
What one believes about God bears directly on what one believes about the future of the human person.
Film
“As Seen Through These Eyes” helps us to see that human creativity can transcend even the most inhuman situations.
Arts & CultureBooks
With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.
Theater
Liv Ullmann talks about faith, Ingmar Bergman and directing "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Ideas
God, Samuel Beckett and the 'Theater of the Absurd'
Ideas
Why do contemporary artists have such difficulty depicting holiness?
Woody Allen’s latest film, “Match Point,” is probably one of the most explicitly atheistic films in the history of American cinema. It is also a vivid illustration of the nihilistic worldview that Allen has been presenting in most of his films for nearly 40 years. While God is abse