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I recently attended Queens Pride, the Pride parade in the New York borough of Queens. Queens is actually the largest borough in New York City by area, 109 square miles, [...]

On Dec. 4, Carnegie Hall will host a holiday celebration to benefit Ukraine. Compositions by Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Eric Whitacre and others will be performed by choral groups from [...]

If I could have my life all over again, the one thing I would wish is that when I was graduating from college someone would have told me you don't [...]

GUEST VOICES by Jim McDermott NCRonline.org/authors/jim-mcdermott Have we reached a moment when it's time for the many LGBTQ bishops, priests, deacons, brothers and sisters of the Catholic Church to come [...]

When the British TV writer Jimmy McGovern was 10 years old, his teacher at the all-boys school he attended offered a contest: The boy who wrote the best composition on [...]

While going through a series of notes meetings on a TV show she had with a network, Lakota playwright and MacArthur Fellow Larissa FastHorse jokes that she came up with [...]

'Here Lies Love,' a disco-inspired musical about Imelda Marcos, wife of Filipino president and later dictator Ferdinand Marcos, opened this summer on Broadway. Created by American pop icon David Byrne [...]

Last fall Bruce Norris's Off-Broadway play Downstate had theatregoers abuzz with its provocative and unsettling portrait of a halfway house for pedophiles. It was just one of a number of [...]

One of the best parts of Christmas, in my opinion, is hearing about how other people celebrate it. It is going to your in-laws' house and learning that in place [...]

The term rrtival implies an action that is also a location; we withdraw to some place away from our normal lives. And yet the physical structure of the place where [...]

California is nowhere near as homogenous politically as it is usually represented. Yes, they have elected Jerry Brown as governor four times. But in the last 50 years, Californians have [...]

Among the many works of the Society of Jesus in its nearly 500-year history, its missions among the Guarani people of present-day Paraguay and Bolivia remain perhaps its most fabled. [...]

On a bright morning in Melbourne last December, Patricia Faulkner, A.O., chair of the board of Jesuit Social Services in Australia, stood before a room filled with press and members [...]

The first thing you have to know about Mary Ashcroft is that she thinks she is a little bit kooky It comes up over and over in conversation. 'Maybe I'm [...]

As the Trump administration threatened to round up undocumented immigrants around the country in mid-July, Guadalupe Pacheco (not her real name) of Los Angeles tried to keep focused on anything [...]

Bright and early every Monday morning, Selam Bisrat emerges from her apartment on the island of Malta carrying her infant son, while her wide-eyed, 12-year-old daughter walks nearby, her hijab [...]

NEW YORK * It's early evening on Thursday, Sept. 16, and I'm walking through the Broadway district of Manhattan, on my way to the Ambassador Theater. It's like a hundred [...]

If I could have my life all over again, the one thing I would wish is that when I was graduating from college someone would have told me you don't [...]

The article looks at the existential crisis facing writers and actors in the U.S. entertainment industry. It points out the threat posed by machine learning and artificial intelligence to writers and actors and raises question on the sustainability of streaming services. Focus is given on the difficulty facing writers and actors such as lower salaries, shorter series runs and collapse of residuals. It shows a sense of betrayal by business executives in their treatment of their creative staff.

A personal narrative is presented which discusses the author's experience of considering lessons learnt from COVID-19 pandemic and declaration of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the end of public health emergency.

For the last nine months, Greenwich Village's famous sing-along piano bar Marie's Crisis has been streaming five hours of live performance every night. Performers sing Broadway standards from their homes [...]

In February Pope Francis installed 20 new cardinals. In keeping with the pope's interest in moving the church 'to the peripheries,' these new cardinals hail from all over the world, [...]

When 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' debuted on Dec. 9, 1965, CBS executives were so sure it would fail they informed its executive producer, Lee Mendelson, they were showing it only [...]

A few years ago, Paula Szuchman, a vice president at the public radio station WNYC in New York, was on vacation with her family and having a bit of trouble. [...]

The author presents observation about the U.S. midterm elections. Topics discussed include need of the press to examine the process by which it draws and offers conclusions about the election, importance of the abortion issue for Catholic voters, and one of the many frightening legacies of the administration of President Donald Trump.

The documentary film "Emergent City" directed by Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg explores the struggle of the Sunset Park community in Brooklyn against gentrification and displacement caused by outside developers. The filmmakers take an observational approach, allowing the story to emerge from the perspectives of various community members. The film highlights the complexity of the issue, showcasing the deep goodness and generosity of the residents, as well as the strain they face due to rising rents and ongoing development plans. Ultimately, "Emergent City" offers a nuanced and immersive glimpse into the fragile and complicated nature of urban life. [Extracted from the article]

FRANCIS, BISHOP OF ROME The Gospel For the Third Millennium By Allan Figueroa Deck, S.L Paulist Press. 160p $20 GO INTO THE STREETS! The Welcoming Church Of Pope Francis By [...]