Family-Friendly Flicks: A New Option for Parents Renting DVDs

Parents Leslie and Michael Tuttle understand the difficulty in finding good films for their 8- and 5-year-old sons to watch. They gave up monthly cable service because the job of monitoring content became too daunting.
Up until recently, they depended… Read More

Treat Yourself to a Retreat

When’s the last time you went on retreat?
As a single person you have greater opportunities to take some time for rest, prayer, and vocational discernment. Amid the hustle and bustle of life it’s particularly difficult to slow down and… Read More

The World’s Story vs. A Fable for Our Age

Every age has its story, a story that gets read and re-read, told and re-told; a story that helps to define the age. For 2,000 years the Christian story has been the world’s story — the greatest story ever told.… Read More

True Lies The Myths That Hollywood Tells

When the Oscar nominees were counted up, and it didn’t look promising. First, Brokeback Mountain, the film that normalized homosexual behavior through the American western genre, led the pack with four nominations. And Felicity Huffman was up for best actress… Read More

Raise a Glass for Life

You might not think selling wine has much to do with standing up for life, but a Cleveland wine marketer has found a way to put the fruit of the vine in the service of adult stem-cell research — which,… Read More

Seven Devotions

If you’re anything like me, your life is a constant blur of activity. You’re on the run. Between work, and Church, and commitments to family and friends, it seems as if you have no time for a spiritual life. Or… Read More

A Surefire Way to Meet People

Nearly two years ago, egged on by two friends, we started a weekly morning men’s book discussion group. The group, which originally started with five, has now grown to as many as 25, including many men whom I’ve never met… Read More

A Pope in the Attic

Where do we go when we die? Surely, we’ve all asked ourselves that question at some point. As I understand it, there are two alternatives: heaven or hell. It had never occurred to me to question where artwork goes when… Read More

Excommunication in St. Louis

What first began as a parish property dispute in northwest St. Louis has led to excommunication for the six members of the board of directors of the civil corporation of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish and the diocesan priest whom they… Read More

Who’ll Be the Real “King” of the Box Office This Christmas?

A Faithful Rendition
In fact, in a reverse of Aesop’s famous fable, I think it will be the lion (Aslan) who benefits the mouse (Mickey) this time. Walt Disney, in cooperation with Walden Media, has created a film that is… Read More

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