Film & Music

So I Married a Demonologist

June 22, 2016 Nick Olszyk 0

MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating:A-III Reel Rating: (3 out of 5 reels) It’s unfortunate that there has never been a truly great exorcist movie (for the record, I consider The Exorcist to be a good, […]

Essay

Confessions of an “elitist”

June 22, 2016 George Weigel 0

The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually content-free. Yet “elitist” is also being weaponized as a scare-word to prevent legitimate criticism of ideas, attitudes, and […]

Essay

My Father’s Questions

June 19, 2016 George J. Galloway 0

The TV sitcom Father Knows Best, which ran from 1954 to 1960, starred the lovable Robert Young (later everybody’s favorite TV family practitioner, Dr. Marcus Welby) and the beautiful Jane Wyatt, as the ideal couple […]

Essay

Thirsting, Seeing, and Believing

June 18, 2016 Carl E. Olson 0

Readings: • Zec 12:10-11; 13:1 • Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 • Gal 3:26-29 • Lk 9:18-24 St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) produced several profound works of mystical theology, filled with powerful descriptions of […]

Analysis

Instruction, not insults

June 17, 2016 Edward N. Peters 0

Canon 868 § 1, n. 2, recognizing the gravity of the obligations that come with baptism and not wishing to see those obligations too-lightly assumed, states: “For an infant to be baptized licitly … there […]