Tag: Catholicism

Junipero Serra, toppling California missions
Culture, EcoJustice Radio

Missions of Culture: Reclaiming Indigenous Wisdom with Caroline Ward Holland

Tune in as EcoJustice Radio welcomes Caroline Ward Holland, a Tribal citizen of the FernandeƱo Band of Mission Indians or Tataviam Nation, as she speaks on the ongoing movement to topple controversial Mission monuments and mythologies. She recounts with host Carry Kim her Walk for the Ancestors in 2015, a pilgrimage she embarked upon with her son, Kagen Holland, to honor the Ancestors at all 21 missions in California.

Anna Magnani, Italian film
Film

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Subversive Champion of the Disinherited

Almost forty years after his violent death, Pier Paolo Pasolini, filmmaker, poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, painter, actor, and all-around intellectual public figure, remains a subject of passionate argument. Best known for a subversive and difficult body of film work, loaded with Renaissance and Baroque iconography, he championed the disinherited and damned of postwar Italy, mingling an intellectual leftism with a fierce Franciscan Catholicism.