Posts by Jim McDermott
Unitas, Caritas, Veritas: Understanding the Augustinian Spirituality of Pope Leo XIV
In the weeks since American Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV, he’s returned more than once to a few key concepts. “I would like our first great desire to be for a united church,” he said in the homily at his installation Mass, “a sign of unity and communion which becomes a leaven…
Read MoreUncle Bob
When I was working on my story last month about Denzel Washington’s work while a student at Fordham and now on Broadway in Othello, I kept running across the name of a theater professor: Robert Stone. He had been one of Washington’s acting teachers and the two performed together in Fordham’s production of Othello. Stone,…
Read MoreWaiting for Othello: Denzel Washington Returns to Broadway
This is the latest example of the city’s never-ending surge of inequity — ticket prices that favor the super-rich and the ultra-connected while the can-do shows and actors who are the beating heart of Broadway are displaced for the theatrical equivalent of a Marvel cinematic summer tentpole: celebrity-stuffed, and emotionless.
Read MoreReaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J.
The music icon found one of his savviest interpreters in a Jesuit priest
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