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  « Hollywood », catéchisme parallèle Résumé (Anglais, style latiniste) : In the grand amphitheater of American culture, Hollywood has long served as a pontifex maximus of secular belief. From early sound films to today’s streaming epics, the movies have disseminated an implicit theology – often subtler and more persuasive than any pulpit homily. Biblical blockbusters, saintly biopics and feel-good conversions (from The Passion of the Christ to The Chosen ) have offered Americans an informal catechism in technicolor researchgate.net decentfilms.com . Yet the same cinema has also sounded the shofar of critique, uncovering clergy scandals and ecclesial hypocrisy in films like Spotlight , Doubt or El Club . In uno lamentis orbis, Hollywood thus preaches two gospels at once: an evangelium laetitiae of faith and redemption, and an evangelium ictus of doubt and reform. The upshot is a sacred paradox: screens have replaced some pews, but the real Verbum – in scroll or heart – remai...

  le catholicisme américain et la boxe : des figures historiques au carrefour du ring et de l’église “L’Église dans le coin du ring : boxe et foi en Amérique” Summary From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, boxing was one of America’s most popular sports, and no community embraced it more passionately than American Catholics americamagazine.org . In an era when immigrant Catholic men often struggled for respect, the boxing ring became both a proving ground and a point of pride. Churches, parishes and Catholic organizations sponsored boxing clubs and tournaments, seeing in the sport a way to build character and keep kids out of trouble. Priests donned the trainer’s cap at local gyms, and even a few future champions like Sonny Liston learned the ropes under clerical guidance americamagazine.org . Catholic heroes of the ring – from Rocky Marciano to Gene Tunney – became ethnic icons, celebrated not just for their titles but for uplifting a community’s morale a...