This weekend, Martin Scorsese’s docudrama series The Saints will premiere on the streaming service Fox Nation. Four episodes will air leading up to Christmas, then the final four before Easter. I’ve watched two of the episodes—on Joan of Arc and Maximilian Kolbe—in advance.

I’m interested in how people perceive God, or perceive the world of the intangible — all people, everywhere. But my way has always been through Catholicism.’