On Friday, January 22, 2010, a crowd estimated at half a million marched up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court. It was the annual March for Life and it commemorates the 1973 Blackmun Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade which…

In The 13th Day, the timely message of Fatima has been retold for a new generation. Directors Ian and Dominic Higgin, accomplished more than a pious revival of a fond moment in Catholic history, they re-cast familiar images of…

Every once in a while, there emerges an ordinary citizen who refuses to stand by and allow evil to triumph by doing something extraordinary. I had long admired the eloquent, informed letters to the editor of Thomas Dennelly Jr.…

In this view into the daily life of a little girl with Down Syndrome, big sister Rachel lovingly describes her six-year-old sister, Alicia May.  Alicia May has endearing traits; she bursts through Rachel’s door in the morning with a…

In the opening scene of Bella, there is a gorgeous view of the ocean surf with seagulls crying overhead. Eduardo Verastegui’s resonant accent is heard in a voice over, saying, “My mother always told me, ‘If you want to…

Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), professor of symbology at Harvard University was swimming his customary laps in the University pool, when he emerges from the pool face to face with a bleary-eyed stranger Claudio Vincenzi (David Pasquesi) carrying what he…

Many Catholics are familiar with the Stations of the Cross, with 14 sculptures representing events in Christ’s Passion from the condemnation by Pontius Pilate to His Body being laid in the tomb borrowed from Joseph of Arimethea. You see them…

Four years ago, a young disabled woman was dehydrated by court order, at the command of her estranged husband, while her loving family’s offers to take her into their home and care for her without compensation were ignored.…

Imagine a kingdom, whose benevolent King gave His subjects fresh water to drink which poured from golden fountains, fields of hearty grain for baking fragrant bread, fine foals in their stables for transportation, and best of all,  a beautiful and…

In the rural area where I live, radio stations which come in clearly on a clock radio are limited, so I awake to news and commentary on National Public Radio. No idle morning banter, this station focuses on serious topics.…