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Chris Pratt and rediscovering the role of the father

December 9, 2018 Titus Techera 1

Mid-June, I wrote for Catholic World Report about Chris Pratt’s joyful and playful speech exhorting people to put their faith in God, to remember their souls, and to pray. The speech, itself nearly unheard of […]

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“Ant-Man and the Wasp” is simple, modest, and wonderful

July 13, 2018 Nick Olszyk 3

This is pure entertainment in a way rarely seen since the adventure serials of the 1930s. […]

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The profound, satirical message of Waugh’s The Loved One endures

June 8, 2018 Russell Shaw 4

Published 70 years ago, the dark novel has something in it to offend just about everyone. […]

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Leading with beauty—and classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age

May 11, 2018 Leslie Fain 2

In a culture deeply divided, this study guide program strives to inspire the moral imagination of young people through classic films. […]

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“I Can Only Imagine” offers a timely message of repentance and forgiveness

March 16, 2018 Nick Olszyk 7

The new movie is an antidote of sorts to the pretentiousness and hypocrisy of scandal-ridden Hollywood. […]

Columns

Harassment, social progress, and the Church

January 10, 2018 James Kalb 5

Current thought intentionally excludes common-sense understandings of how things are, especially with regard to sex and the sexes. […]

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“Deliver Us” documents exorcisms while avoiding clichés and sensationalism

December 29, 2017 K. V. Turley 9

Throughout Deliver Us the tone is a correct one: sober, measured, open. The filmmakers capture the film’s subjects—both exorcists and those seeking deliverance—in a way that […]

Opinion

Sexploits and crisis: Is it 2002 revisited?

December 22, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 47

The current drama of Hollywood stars, media types, athletes and politicians is the fruit of the hyper-sexualization of society as a whole for decades at […]

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Our ugly progressive culture’s desperate need for authentic love and the Faith

December 16, 2017 Alan L. Anderson 7

By divorcing human intimacy from the context for which it was created our secular progressives have reduced it to simply pleasure, or what use to […]

The Dispatch

Identity politics as the logical result of the Sexual Revolution: An interview with Mary Eberstadt

November 20, 2017 Catholic News Agency 12

“Identity politics says that biography is destiny – that how you’re born determines your political and moral interests in life. Nothing could be further from […]

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