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  🇺🇸 Le catholicisme américain à la croisée des chemins Résumé en anglais American Catholicism stands at a crossroads. A new study on U.S. priests shows younger clergy lean more liturgically traditional and politically conservative; half of U.S. Catholics now identify as “cultural” rather than practicing; and Pope Leo XIV’s public critique of U.S. immigration policy has stirred both solidarity and backlash. With parish closures, declining Mass attendance and competing Catholic identities — social-service oriented vs. national-identitarian — the question looms: how can the Church re-assert its vitality in a rapidly changing society? Le catholicisme aux États-Unis ressemble aujourd’hui à une vaste cathédrale en travaux : les fondations tremblent, les piliers vacillent, mais la cloche continue de sonner — et pose la question : pour quoi faire ? Alors que certaines paroisses ferment, que la pratique régulière décline, que les jeunes prêtres adoptent une théologie plus orthodoxe, ...

 🎬 Catholicisme et Hollywood : une histoire en technicolor Introduction to the Series American Catholicism has its saints, its martyrs… and its Hollywood stars. What many forget is that the silver screen shaped, as much as pulpits and catechisms, the imagination of the faithful and the curious alike. In the United States, the cassock entered movie theaters long before the pope ever set foot in Central Park. Cinema gave American Catholics something the pulpit couldn’t always deliver: popular stories, familiar faces, shared dramas. From the smiling priests of the 1940s to mobsters weighed down by guilt, from exorcists to journalists uncovering scandals, Hollywood has staged the paradoxes of a faith at once rooted and contested. Why a series of articles? Because Hollywood, far from being a mere backdrop, has functioned as a parallel catechism — a theology in images, accessible to the masses. Films have idealized, criticized, accused, and consoled. They accompanied the integration...