With the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Congress prohibited “the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion unless it demonstrates that doing so both furthers a compelling governmental interest and represents […]
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 […]
There can be a cultural connection between the serious and silly. Such is the function of satire and irony. Currently, there is a movie blowing the top off the box office that is either satirical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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