Category: Arts, Leisure & Culture

Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance
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Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance

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by on May 14, 2012 in Columnists, Dating & Singles, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage, Men, On Books, On the Job, Parenting, Women
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Style, Sex, & Substance: 10 Catholic Women Consider the Things that Really Matter, edited buy Hallie Lord, is full of spiritual truths and spunk! The ten women who each tackle a different current issue seem to hit most of the hot topics usually found splashed across the covers of women’s tabloids, but from a Catholic [...]

The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude
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The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude

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by on May 11, 2012 in Featured, International Issues, On Media
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Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of Islam-critical speech on its channels are the frank acknowledgements that BBC policy is shaped by fear. During a [...]

The Book Browser: New Childrens Books
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The Book Browser: New Childrens Books

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by on May 10, 2012 in On Books
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Dastardly Dames in History, Ages 9-12 Cixi: Dragon Empress Author: Natsha Yim Illustrator: Peter Malone Reading level: Ages 9 and up Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Goosebottom Books ISBN-10: 0983425655 ISBN-13: 978-0983425656 This series of historical accounts profiles strong women who took extraordinary measures to achieve and maintain power—including murder, deception, and black magic—examining the women’s reputations in the [...]

Movie Review: Love’s Everlasting Courage
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Movie Review: Love’s Everlasting Courage

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by on May 08, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, On Movies, Video, Women
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Popular Christian author Janette Oke’s first book was Love Comes Softly. Janette was born during the depression years on a Canadian prairie farm and she remembers her childhood as full of love, laughter, family life and faith. Janette drew upon these themes for her debut novel and her many other popular books that followed. I [...]

Catholic Family Fun
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Catholic Family Fun

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by on May 08, 2012 in Featured, On Books, Parenting
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As parents, we have so many responsibilities when it comes to our children. We need to feed, clothe, and nurture them. We need to raise them in the faith and make sure that they are educated. But in the midst of all those responsibilities, it is also important to have fun as a family. Moments [...]

Book Review: Suicide of a Superpower
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Book Review: Suicide of a Superpower

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by on May 04, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice, On Books, The Social Order
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I was nearing the close of Pat Buchanan’s new book Suicide of a Superpower (St. Martin’s Press) when I read that MSNBC had fired him as a political commentator for expressing views offensive to political correctness as practiced at that left-leaning network. (“Left-leaning” as applied to MSNBC comes from the Los Angeles Times, which is [...]

Dan Savage: Bully
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Dan Savage: Bully

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by on May 04, 2012 in Featured, On Media, The Homosexual Agenda
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They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column, a lecture circuit and multiple visits to the Obama White House. You know: “Forward.” The irony is palpable. Dan Savage, sex columnist and founder of the LGBT anti-bullying “It Gets [...]

The Vow: A Story of True Love
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The Vow: A Story of True Love

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by on May 04, 2012 in Featured, Marriage, On Media
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About a month ago, I went to see the movie The Vow fully prepared for it to be an overall disappointment.  It certainly delivered, except for one scene that actually makes the movie worth seeing. The mother tells her upset daughter that she stayed with her husband after learning of his lengthy affair because she [...]

Upcoming Movie Review: For Greater Glory
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Upcoming Movie Review: For Greater Glory

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by on May 01, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, On Movies
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I’m doing something I’ve never done before. I’ve never written a movie review for a movie I have not yet seen or a book review for book I have not yet read. But I am so excited by the “buzz” about an upcoming movie that I thought I’d let you in on some of it. [...]

Beyond the Birds and the Bees by Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak
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Beyond the Birds and the Bees by Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak

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by on May 01, 2012 in Featured, On Books, Parenting
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For the past few months, I’ve had the great pleasure of a biweekly radio chat with Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak, Directors of the Pastoral Solutions Institute and authors of Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Raising Sexually Whole and Holy Kids. As a major fan of Dr. Greg and Lisa’s work, their writing, and [...]

‘Chariots of Fire’ Makes a Comeback – On Stage and in Real Life
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‘Chariots of Fire’ Makes a Comeback – On Stage and in Real Life

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by on Apr 28, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Live in Christ, On Media
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The glorious story of Eric Liddell will soon grace a London stage just as issues of conscience make headlines with Christians defending religious freedom from coercion. Chariots of Fire, the Oscar-winning film of Olympic runner Eric Liddell’s refusal to race on the Sabbath, is being adapted into a play to usher in the 2010 Olympics [...]

God’s Nanomachines
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God’s Nanomachines

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by on Apr 22, 2012 in Art & Architecture, Featured, Science
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When that first soft cloud of pale green appears on the trees in Spring, I always try hard to comprehend the unimaginably high number of leaves there are budding into the world’s most sophisticated little nano-scale energy machines.  It is truly a miracle of nature, and one that is so common all around us, it’s easy [...]

Coming to a TV Near You: ‘The Catholic View for Women’
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Coming to a TV Near You: ‘The Catholic View for Women’

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by on Apr 19, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, On Media, Women
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When Astrid Bennett Gutierrez, Janet Morana and Teresa Tomeo get together, something fantastic happens — it’s called The Catholic View for Women. It’s a new EWTN talk show. Several pilot shows ran on the network last year, garnering reviews so favorable that EWTN not only contracted for a full series, 13 episodes of which will [...]

Touched By Touch
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Touched By Touch

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by on Apr 18, 2012 in Featured, On Media
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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the [...]

Adam and Eve after the Pill: the Devastating Fallout of the Sexual Revolution
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Adam and Eve after the Pill: the Devastating Fallout of the Sexual Revolution

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by on Apr 13, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On Books
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Occasionally, a book perfectly marries expert insight with the tone and interests of its audience. Mary Eberstadt’s Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution (Ignatius Press) is just such a serendipity. In a rejoinder to decades of sexual liberation barbs and sexually libertine behavior, Eberstadt’s thin but illuminating volume introduces female [...]

Movie Review: Blue Like Jazz
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Movie Review: Blue Like Jazz

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by on Apr 13, 2012 in Featured, On Media
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There’s a new kind of film coming to a cinema near you–film that is Christian, made by Christians, but (proudly) not part of the “Christian film genre.” The movie is rated PG-13 but was almost rated R because of its “realness” with regard to campus life. Lots of language and mature themes. Director Steve Taylor [...]

Movie Review: The Hunger Games
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Movie Review: The Hunger Games

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by on Apr 12, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, On Movies, The Social Order
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The Hunger Games is set in a way beyond dystopia future in which the rulers living in the Third-Reich-like “Capitol” keep the peons in the “Districts” in fear and subjugation by holding gladiatorial games each year. The combatants are children and teenagers, picked at random to fight to the death, each representing their District. And [...]

The Hunger Games: A Catholic Parent’s Guide to Themes and Issues
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The Hunger Games: A Catholic Parent’s Guide to Themes and Issues

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by on Apr 11, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, On Books, On Movies, The Social Order
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The movie version of The Hunger Games debuted on March 23, and it is breaking all records. What follows is a review of The Hunger Games Trilogy by author, Suzanne Collins. **Spoiler Alert—The plot is discussed here in detail for parental benefit. The level of detail is to help facilitate a discussion with your child [...]

Movie Review: War Horse
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Movie Review: War Horse

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by on Apr 10, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, History, On Movies
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Baby seals, puppies and horses all seem to have a universal ability to tug at people’s heartstrings. It’s just something about how we’re made, and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse doesn’t disappoint in that department. This film takes you on an emotional ride from the opening scene, the birth of a horse in rural England, right [...]

Cleveland Indians’ Player Thankful
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Cleveland Indians’ Player Thankful

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by on Apr 10, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men, Sports
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If you ask Jack Hannahan what he’s thankful for, be prepared to listen for a while. Hannahan, 32, has plenty to appreciate, starting with the realization of his dream of playing in the major leagues. In 2001, he was named Big Ten Player of the Year at the University of Minnesota and was drafted in [...]

Book Review: Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
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Book Review: Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

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by on Apr 09, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, On Books, The Social Order
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If you are searching for the authoritative Baedeker Guide to the End of the West, search no longer. The book by Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? makes a devastating case for the end of what we know as the West. Pat Buchanan is the unacknowledged godfather of the [...]

This Fiesty Manifesto is Just What American Catholics Need
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This Fiesty Manifesto is Just What American Catholics Need

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by on Apr 07, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, History, Law & Justice, Live in Christ, On Books
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“Social issues.” It’s a squishy, equivocal term suited to a mentality ill at ease with the hard-edged implications of “moral issues” and “morality.” What implications? That there are definite moral truths that show some things to be always and everywhere wrong and deserving of condemnation. Not what the “social issues” mindset cares to hear. There’s [...]

Roman Fever
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Roman Fever

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by on Apr 05, 2012 in Art & Architecture, Featured, History, Travel
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A city like no other, maybe even more so this time of year. What do you call a city with a jail named Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven)? For the last 3,000 years, you call it Rome. Forty years had passed since I had last visited Rome, broke and hitchhiking through Europe the summer after [...]

Movie Review: We Bought a Zoo
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Movie Review: We Bought a Zoo

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by on Apr 05, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, On Movies, Video
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Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) and his two children, Dylan (Colin Ford) and Rosie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones), lost their wife and mother, Katherine, just six months ago. The family is grieving and Benjamin is floundering in his job as a journalist. Dylan (fourteen) is moody, angry and in regular trouble at school. Rosie (seven) misses her [...]

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