Faith
An iconic homosexual Catholic filmmaker
Here is an unusual description for a man: homosexual (his word) Roman Catholic film director, opera director, conservative politician who publicly supports the Church’s positions on issues related to homosexuality.
Whew!
Read MoreThe Miracle Maker
I believe in the power of entertainment as a tool to evangelize an easily distracted world. A priest at one of our recent performances marveled at the size of the crowd for The Wedding at Cana. He said, “we’d never be able to pull 150 parishioners for a Bible study.”
And yet entertainment can, and does, teach. It can also distort our Christian faith, and that is where things get interesting…
Read More“Atheism is the opiate of the masses”
Fr. Robert Barron discusses the intellectual vacuity of the modern atheist movement in the video commentary above. Karl Marx famously said that religion is the “opiate of the masses.” Fr. Barron says he got it backwards, that atheism is the opiate of the masses, that it attempts, much like a drug, to mask our deepest longing. And what is that longing?
It is our longing for God, our desire for something beyond the abilities of this world to satisfy…
Read MoreMy top ten religious movies for Lent
We’re in the midst of the awe and majesty of the Easter Triduum. When you get home from church and look for good religious entertainment, consider one of these ten movies. These are my favorite religious movies for the Lent/Easter season.
Read More“A caress of Jesus”
Today is Holy Thursday.
The profound richness of the Last Supper comes alive in this, the beginning of the Easter Triduum.
Tonight at Mass, we will wash each other’s feet as a prelude to the Eucharistic sacrifice…
Read MoreThe Indiana smokescreen
The game has changed.
Why is the Left so infuriated by Indiana’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? After all, a liberal Democrat, President Bill Clinton, signed a very similar bill into law at the federal level back in 1993.
After all, left-wing Democrat, Barack Obama, supported a similar law in Illinois when he was a State Senator.
And after all, 20 states already have similar laws on the books, and a dozen more states have similar legislation pending.
So why the outrage now?
Read MoreAmerica suffers from tolerance
“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not… “
Read MoreThe Indiana Catholic Bishops respond
“We believe that it is crucial that religious freedom be protected. As Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel: “No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions” (n. 183).”
Read MoreKilling Jesus
“It play with the idea that Jesus’ teachings are more important than the doing of miracles, that the idea behind what he’s saying is the point and it doesn’t need to have out-of-body, magical elements happening.”
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