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Taking a Biblical walk through the Mass: An interview with Edward Sri

August 3, 2022 Paul Senz 9

“Christ is always present in His Church,” states Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II’s document on the Sacred Liturgy, “especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the […]

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Too good not to be true: Two movies about the Thailand cave rescue

July 30, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 18

Perhaps you were glued to the news in late June and early July 2018 as the world followed the ultimately successful efforts in northern Thailand to rescue the 12 young boys of a soccer team […]

Features

Love and thunder, signifying nothing? Religion and nihilism in recent Marvel movies

July 16, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 37

Note: This essay contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Eternals. “I shouldn’t be alive…unless it was for a reason.” “You’re not getting what the universe is […]

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Original Jurassic Park cast members can’t save Jurassic World Dominion

June 10, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 22

The word “dominion” is uttered once in Jurassic World Dominion, in an oblique, irreverent allusion to Genesis 1. “Not only do we lack dominion over nature, we are subordinate to it,” asserts Dr. Ian Malcolm […]

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Matt Walsh’s film What is a Woman? is both valuable and incomplete

June 3, 2022 Amy Welborn 58

What is a Woman, a film from Matt Walsh and the conservative Daily Wire website, was released this week. The 90-minute collection of interviews and commentary on gender identity is well-produced, amusing, and frustrating. It’s […]

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Top Gun: Maverick soars higher than the original

May 25, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 29

Top Gun: Maverick is more than a nostalgia sequel or legacyquel; it is almost more than a movie. It is a manifesto and a monument, a defiant time capsule and a swaggering IMAX spectacle without […]

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Trying to reach the sublime: Robert Eggers, cinematic poet of the past

May 4, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 4

C.S. Lewis, in his preface to St. Athanasius’ On The Incarnation, wrote a brisk apologia for reading premodern authors, later published under the title “On the Reading of Old Books.” Lewis’s simple thesis is that […]

Features

New Polish film features stories of how God works through the priesthood

April 25, 2022 Filip Mazurczak 3

The Polish documentary Powołany (“Called”), which includes dramatized sequences, was released on YouTube on Holy Thursday, the day of the institution of the priesthood, this year. It presents the lives of seven people whose lives […]

Features

Father Stu is a mostly endearing, shaggy redemption story

April 13, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 43

“Life’s gonna give you a gutful of reasons to be angry,” a mysterious stranger tells Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) near a key turning point in his ambivalent quest for meaning. “You only need one to […]

Features

“Everything happens for a reason”: Mark Wahlberg and Teresa Ruiz on Father Stu

April 12, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 3

Stuart Long tried many things in life: football, wrestling, boxing, acting in Hollywood, bartending, even managing an art museum. Then, perhaps not entirely unlike Saul being knocked off his horse, his life was radically changed […]

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