Batman

Why is a photo of Jared Leto dressed like the Joker and Jesus floating around?

By Jack Jenkins — February 22, 2021

(RNS) — It’s from the so-called Snyder Cut of ‘Justice League.’ Or is it?

Don’t be fooled by QAnon’s post-apocalyptic fury. It’s really spiritual hunger.

By Tara Isabella Burton — July 21, 2020

(RNS) — Followers of the online Q and white supremacism yearn for a world in which everything makes sense and where they at last have a role to play.

A ‘Joker’ — and a world — gone mad from nihilism

By Tara Isabella Burton — October 17, 2019

(RNS) — Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix alike imbue the character with such fundamental dignity, even in his abasement, that we never forget that we are called to love him, not laugh at him.

Stan Lee, Jewish literary hero

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 13, 2018

Secret identities? What was up with that, anyway?

Is Batman Jewish?

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 12, 2017

(RNS) Trauma, a secret identity — there was always more 'Torah' in Batman than I realized.

What goes through our hearts at the sight of a murderer?

By Omid Safi — July 23, 2012

As I kept watching my own emotions come and go, I wondered:
what am I experiencing as I see the first live images of this killer?
What goes through my own heart?
Is it Anger?
Is it Pity?
Is it Compassion?

‘Horrific’ shooting rampage inside US cinema

By Sally Morrow — July 20, 2012

A masked gunman has shot dead at least 12 people and wounded 50 others at a showing of new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in the US state of Colorado.

Colorado shooting brings a brief ‘truce’ on the campaign trail