Martin Scorsese's Damned Men Walking

by John Waters

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution. 
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22 Nov 2019

Letters

by Various

CONTEMPT OF COURT James Nuechterlein (“Remembering Peter Berger,” October) feels that the 1996 First Things symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics was inappropriate because it cast doubts on the legitimacy of American political order. As it is, however, the problem is still with us. If . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2017

Disincarnate Christ

by Gabriel Torretta

Silence by shūsaku endōforeword by martin scorsesepicador, 256 pages, $16 Silencea film directed by martin scorseseparamount, 161 minutes, $19.99 Vincent Shiozuka’s life was a failure. Raised Christian in Japan, he fled to Manila in 1614 to avoid the growing Christian persecution in his native . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2017

Silence for Silence

by John Murdock

In the end, Silence was too Christian for Hollywood and too Hollywood for Christians. Continue Reading »

24 Feb 2017

Silence: Scorsese’s Spiritual Masterpiece

by William Doino Jr.

Beautifully filmed and acted, Silence is as powerful as it is ambitious. Continue Reading »

2 Jan 2017