Among the last 50 years’ most unfortunate historical illiteracies has been the myth that it took Vatican II to bring about the most elementary courtesy between Catholics and non-Catholics. Before 1962, the legend goes, Catholics […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (4 Reels out of 5) Godzilla films can be placed in two camps. The first involves Godzilla as a destructive force of nature leveling retributive justice on […]
So, which of the following was true of the day I tried to sit down with my BFF and watch Moms’ Night Out? A. I had a “moment” wherein I threw out my coffee, locked […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson—the prominent astrophysicist and science popularizer whose reboot of Cosmos is currently airing on Fox and the National Geographic Channel—was asked a few years ago “which books should be read by every single […]
A scratchy LP, probably on a phonograph player from the 1930s or so, begins playing and a man clears his throat. Horns and woodwinds slowly swell and unveil, coming into tune in the background, finding […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (3 Reels out of 5) The greatest story ever told is also the most recognizable. The good news has been retold so many times over so many […]
Lift high the cross? Yes, and right to the top of the classical music charts. With their third hit album in as many years, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have done it again. […]
When the rumblings began that The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s prelude to his larger work, The Lord of The Rings, was coming to the big screen, I had reservations, but wasn’t put off entirely. After all, […]
Christmas. It’s that time again. And where your ears are concerned, that’s not necessarily glad tidings. In a musical galaxy far, far away, holiday albums used to be considered a privilege of sorts—an artistic diversion […]
Audrey Assad (www.audreyassad.com) is a thirty-year-old singer, pianist, and songwriter who has steadily established herself in recent years as an exceptional musical artist with a gift for deeply spiritual lyrics and memorable melodies. Assad was […]
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