“A glorified South America” was one of the odder dismissive takes on Pandora, the alien world of the Na’vi in James Cameron’s Avatar, that I heard when the movie was in theaters. After all, who […]
Note: This essay contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges. “The things you’re taught as a child…they never really leave you, do they?” These words could be at home in any […]
In 1991, at the age of 29, Canadian-born actor Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. Fox, whose roles included the iconic Alex P. Keaton in the NBC sitcom “Family Ties,” and Marty […]
“There are powers beyond darkness at work in this world. Perhaps on days like this, we have little choice but to trust to their designs and surrender our own.” So says Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) in […]
The new documentary from filmmaker Donald J. Johnson, Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion, had its World Premiere on October 8th at Freed Theater on the campus of Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, […]
Don Johnson, a Catholic filmmaker based in Anaheim, California, will premiere Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion, a new film on the transgender phenomenon sweeping the nation, on Saturday, October 8, from 6 […]
I’ve become interested over the past couple of years in my students’ shrinking vocabularies. It’s just anecdotal, but I fancy that I’ve seen an incredible and radical shrinking up of my students’ words. When I […]
Halfway through the eight episodes of the first season of Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the pieces are starting to fall into place. A story that started with such […]
The term “legendarium”—first used by Tolkien to describe those writings in which he labored for much of his life on the mythopoeic backdrop to The Hobbit and, later, The Lord of the Rings—suggests a literary […]
“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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