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Soraya M. and the Figure of Christ

July 4th, 2009 by Rev. Robert Barron

I first became acquainted with the barbarism of certain aspects of Shari’a law through an article published a few years ago in the New Yorker magazine.  The author detailed how, in many middle eastern countries, Muslim men use the prescriptions…

 

‘Take My Voice With You’

June 30th, 2009 by Anita Crane

The beauty of immutable truth commands a certain silence, and this paradox is reason to see The Stoning of Soraya M., which [opened last week] in select movie theaters across the United States.

This film couldn’t be more timely as our good…

 

Book Review: Behind Bella

June 20th, 2009 by Leticia Velasquez

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 make God…

 

Finding Strong Fathers in Film

June 20th, 2009 by Marc T. Newman, Ph.D.

Once you get past [those of the] Ten Commandments that deal with humans’ relationship to God, the first “horizontal” commandment is that people honor their fathers and mothers (Exodus 20:12). Last month we honored mothers. If you went to church,…

 

Book Review: Christians in China

June 8th, 2009 by Michael J. Miller

St. Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, famously died on an island near Macao before reaching the mainland of China.  Overland trade routes, though, had brought Christian missionaries from the Syrian Church to the imperial city of…

 

Book Review: Saints of the Bible

June 8th, 2009 by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.

Here is a quick reference book on some of the saints of the Bible.  <i>Saints of the Bible: exploring Scripture with holy men and women</i> by  Theresa Doyle-Nelson.  (Huntington, Ind. : Our Sunday Visitor.  111 pages.  Paperback.  ISBN 978-1-59276-317-7.  $9.95. …

 

A Change for the Better

June 4th, 2009 by Andrea Lynn

Prayer is an integral part of the Christian’s journey toward a real, personal relationship with God. God gave us the gift of prayer because of His desire to love us and abide with us, but I must admit that there…

 

Movie Review Angels and Demons

May 22nd, 2009 by Leticia Velasquez

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 immediately…

 

Book Review: Real Women, Real Saints: Friends for your Spiritual Journey

May 8th, 2009 by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.

Gina Loehr provides in her book short biographies of many women saints, blessed, venerable and other holy women with one man included, Blessed Luigi Corsini the husband of Blessed Maria; who were husband and wife and were beatified together as…

 

Memoir by Clarence Thomas Honors Those who Shaped Him

April 24th, 2009 by Michael J. Miller

The journey of Clarence Thomas from a childhood spent in poverty in rural Georgia to his appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States is a remarkable American success story. Yet his My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir is less about…

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