John Prine, who died on Tuesday, April 7, was one of country-folk music's greatest lyricists.

It wasn't for the money of that I'm sure

Brooding, interior and utterly focused, Mr. von Sydow is a stirring presence on screen, with a weathered face apt to illustrate inner spiritual turmoil.

If anything, the dystopia is even scarier in the sequel, which provides terrifying detail on the history of the Christian fundamentalist regime that overthrows the United States at Gilead’s founding.

Maureen Day is an assistant professor of religion and society at the Franciscan School of Theology and the author of Catholic Activism Today: Personal Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice.

What did Notre-Dame mean? What did it feel like to step into it in the Middle Ages?