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1. The role of ritual in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Andrew Blades explores the deeper meanings behind the games that George and Martha play

Author

Blades, Andrew

Subjects
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Play) -- Criticism and interpretation, Games -- Portrayals, Games -- Social aspects, Exorcism -- Portrayals, Exorcism -- Social aspects, Catholics -- Portrayals, Catholics -- Social aspects, Paganism -- Portrayals, Paganism -- Social aspects
Abstract

If we take the Oxford English Dictionary for guidance, a ritual is a solemn ceremony, or a 'prescribed order of performing religious or other devotional service'. However, the term has […]

Published
2007

2. Theater and nation in Irish Romanticism: The tragic dramas of Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil

Author

Connolly, Claire

Subjects
The Apostate (Short fiction) -- Criticism and interpretation, Melmoth the Wanderer (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists -- Criticism and interpretation, Religion and drama -- Criticism and interpretation, Religious drama -- Criticism and interpretation, Catholics -- Portrayals, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, History, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

The plays of Richard Lalor Sheil and Charles Maturin, with temporal and geographic settings remote from Ireland, were read in relation to the metropolitan debates about Catholic suffrage and representation that dominated politics in the years leading to Emancipation in 1829. The stylistic junctures characteristic of Irish Romanticism, tragic, Gothic, and melodramatic, are used to suggest how these plays register anxieties about the admission of Catholics to public life on the level of style.

Published
2006

3. Judas-Friars of the Popish Plot: the Catholic perspective on Dryden's The Spanish Fryar

Author

Gardiner, Anne Barbeau

Subjects
The Spanish Friar (Play) -- Criticism and interpretation, Catholics -- Portrayals, History, Literature/writing, Dominicans -- Portrayals -- History
Abstract

Friar Dominic, the title character of The Spanish Fryar (1681), is usually regarded as a 'crude caricature of Catholicism,' an advertisement for Dryden's Protestantism during the Popish Plot crisis of [...]

Published
2003

4. Reading the Irish

Author

Deignan, Tom

Subjects
Catholics -- Portrayals, Irish Americans -- Religious aspects -- Portrayals, Race discrimination -- Religious aspects -- History, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

In Amy Waldman's celebrated recent novel The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), controversy ensues when a Muslim-American named Mohammad Khan is selected to design a memorial at ground zero to [...]

Published
2012

5. An interview with Mary Gordon

Author

Asirvatham, Sandy

Subjects
Gordon, Mary (American writer) -- Interviews, Women authors -- Interviews, Catholics -- Portrayals, Literature/writing
Abstract

Novelist Mary Gordon is concerned with writing about the way ordinary American Catholics live, which involves attempts by moral people to bridge the gaps between Christian ideals and the imperfections most lives contain. Gordon uses contemplative monologues to move her stories without depending on traditional plots or formal structures. Her father's encouragement toward books and her mother's earthy social sense were the highly influential forces in Gordon's life.

Published
1997

8. Church fills table with wayward offspring

Author

LEACH, MICHAEL

Subjects
Catholics United for the Faith -- Media coverage, Catholicity -- Media coverage, Catholics -- Portrayals
Abstract

It happened in the last century. I had written an essay for America magazine called "The Last Catholics in America." Its purpose was to bring those Catholics who welcome change […]

Published
2000

9. THE LAST WORD - a 'wing' & a prayer

Author

Feuerherd, Peter

Subjects
The West Wing (Television program) -- Criticism and interpretation -- Performances, Catholics -- Portrayals, Presidents -- Portrayals, Humanities, Literature/writing, Political science, Criticism and interpretation, Portrayals, Performances
Abstract

Some may swoon for the heroic Senator John McCain of Arizona. Others might go for Bill Bradley, George W., or 'you can call me Al.' But this year I am [...]

Published
2000

10. Catholic Controversy over 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'; Wanda Sykes Speaks; Wanda Sykes for a New Show; Michael Jackson`s Movie Premiering

Subjects
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Television program) -- Religious aspects, This Is It (Motion picture) -- Planning, Comedians -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Comedians -- Works, Catholics -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Catholics -- Portrayals, Pop singers -- Portrayals, Company business planning, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

JOY BEHAR, HLN ANCHOR: Tonight, many Catholics are furious with Larry David because of a joke he made on his show 'Curb your Enthusiasm' involving Jesus. Did the joke go [...]

Published
2009

11. Malcolm Gladwell's Irish problem: the bestselling author's cavalier handling of a Belfast tragedy suggests that his stories might be a little too neat

Author

McCartney, Jenny

Subjects
Northern Ireland -- History -- Portrayals, David and Goliath (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Catholics -- Portrayals, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Political science, Irish Republican Army -- Portrayals
Abstract

Malcolm Gladwell, the curly-haired, counter-intuitive guru of modern thought who wrote The Tipping Point and Blink, certainly has a readable style, and often a striking way of turning received notions [...]

Published
2013

13. What does a Catholic look like?

Author

Sanders, Theresa

Subjects
Motion picture industry -- Religious aspects, Catholics -- Portrayals, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

In the 1944 movie 'Going My Way,' Fr. Chuck O'Malley (Bing Crosby) didn't look like a Catholic. Instead of a black cassock, he wore a St. Louis Browns sweatshirt. Instead [...]

Published
2010

14. Crab-walking is the image the editor uses to describe the way most of us act out our church's moral norms. We don't reject them, he writes in a Commonweal symposium, we 'trim, adjust, and make exceptions.'

Subjects
Editors -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Works, Catholics -- Portrayals, Religions -- Evaluation, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

Crab-walking is the image the editor uses to describe the way most of us act out our church's moral norms. We don't reject them, he writes in a Commonweal symposium, [...]

Published
2012

15. 'Hulk. Catholic. SMASH!'

Subjects
Catholics -- Portrayals, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

In the latest cinematic incarnation of the Avengers, the not-so-jolly green giant Hulk made short work of the godling Loki, literally casting him to the ground as a 'puny god.' [...]

Published
2013

16. Gay Center goes Catholic

Author

Schaefer, Stephen

Subjects
The Perfect Family (Motion picture) -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations -- Personalities -- Authorship, Catholics -- Portrayals, Actors -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Works, Actresses -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Works, Arts and entertainment industries, Business
Abstract

Kathleen Turner was the focus on film and in person at a GLAAD and LGBT Community Center-hosted screening of 'The Perfect Family' May 1 in Greenwich Village. Asked how she [...]

Published
2012

17. The worst of the 'Times:' some news doesn't fit

Author

Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien

Subjects
The New York Times (Newspaper), Catholics -- Portrayals, Objectivity, Humanities, Literature/writing, Political science, Portrayals
Abstract

To the surprise of many and the dismay of some, New York City's Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez is a goner; in mid-February the central school board voted 4-3 not to [...]

Published
1993

18. Anonymous Catholic

Subjects
The Simpsons (Television program) -- Religious aspects, Cartoon television programs -- Religious aspects, Catholics -- Portrayals, Cartoon characters -- Religious aspects, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

ANONYMOUS CATHOLIC: The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano recently published an article lauding The Simpsons television show. Noting the show's recurrent attention to faith, religion and God, the article concludes that [...]

Published
2010

19. Atheist book to atheist movie

Subjects
The Golden Compass (Book) -- Personalities, Film adaptations -- Personalities, Catholics -- Portrayals
Abstract

Hollywood -- Just in time for the holy season of Christmas, another anti-religion novel series will hit the big screens. The Golden Compass is based on the "Dark Materials" trilogy […]

Published
2007

20. Stanford band's antics strike a nerve in the Irish, Catholics

Author

Guido, Michelle

Subjects
Stanford University, Catholics -- Portrayals, Irish Americans -- Portrayals
Abstract

PALO ALTO, Calif. _ The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band has made its reputation by being absurd, over-the-top and sometimes offensive. But when Stanford's football team played Notre Dame […]

Published
1997

21. Still telling stories of sin, sex and redemption

Author

ALLEN, JOHN L. JR.

Subjects
Catholics -- Portrayals, Authors -- Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy and religion, Criticism and interpretation, Portrayals
Abstract

Despite scorn from Catholic elites, Greeley says readers understand Fr. Andrew Greeley's beef with the intelligentsia of the American Catholic church boils down to this: They still don't get it. [...]

Published
1999

22. Catholic League Blasts Plays

Author

Armbrust, Roger

Subjects
Catholics -- Portrayals, Theater -- Ethical aspects, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights -- Political activity
Abstract

Extending its attach beyond 'Corpus Christi,' The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is also taking shots at other Off-Broadway shows: 'Tony 'n Tina's Wedding,' 'Nunsense A-men,' and 'Late [...]

Published
1998

23. Inside NCR

Subjects
Catholic Church in the United States -- Media coverage, 20/20 (Television program) -- Public opinion, Sensationalism in television -- Religious aspects, Catholics -- Portrayals
Published
1991

24. Religious Right Dogs Dogma

Author

Radford, Benjamin

Subjects
The Walt Disney Co. -- Contracts, Lions Gate Entertainment -- Contracts, Motion picture industry -- Contracts, Catholics -- Portrayals, Contract agreement, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

After months of controversy, film distribution rights to the religious satire 'Dogma' have been sold to Lion's Gate Entertainment by controversy-shy Disney. Dogma is an edgy, intelligent satire about faith [...]

Published
1999

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