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Sean Fitzpatrick is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and serves on the faculty of Gregory the Great Academy in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. He teaches Literature, Mythology, and Humanities. Mr. Fitzpatrick’s writings on education, literature, and culture have appeared in a number of journals including Crisis Magazine, Catholic Exchange, the Cardinal Newman Society’s Journal for Educators, and the Imaginative Conservative. He lives in Scranton with his wife, Sophie, and their seven children.
The Dispatch

The Ritual is rinse and repeat, with few redeeming qualities

June 7, 2025 Sean Fitzpatrick 3

This June sees the theatrical release of yet another Hollywood film about demonic possession and it is getting attention from some Catholics. The Ritual stars the great Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as the priests […]

Features

The Last Supper is too safe and sentimental to be significant

March 12, 2025 Sean Fitzpatrick 9

When Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ came out in 2004, the Catholic and Christian reaction blew the doors off theaters. Love it or hate it, the impact that remarkable (though rough) film has had on […]

The Dispatch

Felicity and Perpetua: On the Horns of Heroic Dilemma

March 7, 2025 Sean Fitzpatrick 4

The expression “caught on the horns of a dilemma” derives from the undesirable situation of facing a charging bull and having to choose which horn to be gored upon. Life is full of such terrible […]

Essay

Robert Frost’s Christmas trees: Pricing out the priceless

December 22, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 8

If you haven’t read “Christmas Trees” by Robert Frost, it’s time. Here you are. It won’t take long, and then you’ll have it. But not “have” in the manner that the poem cautions against—that having that […]

Features

“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” is stylish and slippery

December 10, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 19

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, a new docudrama streaming on FOX Nation produced by the celebrated director, features the lives of eight saints in dramatic enactments with documentary supplements. The series certainly has a fresh […]

Features

Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession

December 4, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 53

Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very […]

Features

Heretic is taut, well-acted, and brilliantly written

November 26, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 14

It’s not often that a conscientious Catholic moviegoer can recommend a horror movie, rife as they are with gratuitous, unwholesome, or just downright uncomfortable content. There are limits to what people should conjure, create, and […]

The Dispatch

Analysis: Why Trump will likely carry Catholic-Democratic Pennsylvania

October 7, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 33

President Joe Biden recently attended the funeral of a childhood friend of his at his old parish of St. Paul’s in the Green Ridge section of Scranton. He came quietly, delivered a eulogy in the small neighborhood […]

Features

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is successful, formulaic, and dull

September 19, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 5

The Halloween season seems to creep in earlier every year, heralded this September by a long-anticipated film from the once-visionary director, Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. To call this movie “long-anticipated” also refers to the fact that it’s […]

The Dispatch

As Trump and Harris demonstrated, life Is debatable

September 11, 2024 Sean Fitzpatrick 42

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris engaged in a presidential debate last Tuesday, and the result was as any American with one eye open might have predicted. Trump was mostly dour and angry, reactive and aggressive. […]

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