The director talks about growing up on the Lower East Side, his early dream of making a film about Jesus in New York City, and what led him to Endo's "Silence."
Some of the anxiety pervading reception of 'Amoris laetitia' invites misconstruals of the text that dwarf whatever legitimate worries that critics may have.
Simeon Zahl offers thoughts and comments on David Bentley Hart’s "blistering reflection on the economic ethics of the first Christians," and Hart responds.
Henri Nouwen, a Pierrot-like figure with many masks, turned personal vulnerability into spiritual exploration, addressing other people’s pain by sharing his own.