Nick Ripatrazone

Mark Wahlberg slogs it out in ‘Father Stu’

in father stu, mark wahlberg’s deeply personal new film, the titular character is looking for hollywood fame, and love. a boxer-turned-super...

Nick Ripatrazone examines the role of faith in the work of the celebrated media theorist who coined the phrase ‘the medium is the message’

‘i have never been an optimist or a pessimist. i’m an apocalyptic only,” marshall mcluhan said during a 1977 interview. “apocalypse is not g...

American public education is often reduced to caricature, but in reality it is a great democratic experiment, and Catholic teachers – with an eye toward inclusion rather than proselytising – can be an essential element within the world of public schools.

teacher jennifer kirmes (top-c) works with students attempting to "untie" themselves without releasing hands, during part of science class a...

<i>Nick Ripatrazone</i> explores the spiritual songbook of one of the great contemporary American artists, Bruce Springsteen.

‘‘i wouldn’t have believed it myself if i wasn’t standing here,” bruce springsteen said on november 8, 1996. the crowd cheered; they knew wh...

In a new book on the spirituality of the wild, <I>Nick Ripatrazone</I> explains why spring was a source of melancholy for the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

for gerard manley hopkins, the wilderness – especially in spring – was his dark, unforgiving city. a place not of pain and suffering but of ...

In the same way that the convent’s walls are breached by wind, they are also not immune to scandal.

the maiden of all our desires, a new historical novel by peter manseau, begins with a thrashing storm that “would become the stuff of bards’...