Fr. John Saward discusses his new book on angels, and his turn away from the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar after years of studying and translating his works.
It’s time for the Catholic Culture staff’s roundup of our favorite things we read in the past year. This time we have lists by Dr. Jeff Mirus, Phil Lawler, Dr. Jim Papandrea, and Thomas Mirus.
Tokyo Story is a quiet, gentle yet tragic family drama about the distance that can grow between elderly parents and their adult children. If it is critical of those who fail to honor and love their elderly parents, it also shows that this is often a result of the parents having failed their children when they were younger. Tokyo Story should provoke an examination of conscience in viewers of every generation.