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Marvel Matters: As both an icon of despair and an image of hope, Marvel's Daredevil shows how faith fits in a normal Catholic's life
Daredevil & Me: How Marvel's Matt Murdock has helped me make sense of my own life as a Catholic.
I always get nervous when I hear there’s some new pop culture character out there who’s Catholic. I want to believe that if writers are going to make a character’s faith an important part of their identity, they will proceed with some nuance about what that looks like. But most of the time instead we get things like ‘Now Nightcrawler is a priest and he’s super preachy,’ when we all know he just wants to be a pirate and hang out with Amanda Sefton.
Matt Murdock has always been the one exception to the rule. No matter who the writer and artists are, Daredevil creative teams always seem to understand how a life of faith fits in a normal Catholic’s life. In fact, Matt Murdock has been so well written and portrayed over the years, I find he actually has helped me make sense
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