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THE B-LIST: QUESTIONABLE MUSICAL MOMENTS #14 – MARVEL HEROES THEME SONGS

by David on May 6, 2013 · 0 comments

Just like half the population of the world (I’m not sure that’s an exaggeration), I went to see Iron Man 3 this past week. You can find out what I thought over at Aleteia. You know, it’s hard to believe…

Eastertime: A Feast of Faith, Hope and Love

by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. on April 24, 2013 · 2 comments

A friend once described the spiritual life in this way: Each of us is a child with an instinct for beauty, and God, who is the Beauty behind all beauty, is the hidden presence we naturally seek to touch. We…

THE B-LIST – THE TOP 6 WORST PLACES TO BE BURIED

by David on April 23, 2013 · 0 comments

While recently reading through the Catechism in one year as a part of the Year of Faith (Day 185 to be precise), I ran across a quote from St. Monica regarding the handling of her mortal remains after her approaching…

Summer Schools Teaching Art, Theory and Practice, in a Beautiful Abbey in Devon, England; and Kansas

by David Clayton on April 19, 2013 · 0 comments

Taking place at Buckfast Abbey, a Benedictine monastery set in the beautiful Devon countryside, the Maryvale Institute has offering a short residential summer school that will take place in August and which offers you the chance to study Catholic traditions…

CUTAWAYS: THE THREE AMIGOS

by David March 26, 2013

Day 162 of reading through the Catechism in one year as a part of the Year of Faith has rolled around, and this little nugget popped up. “God speaks to man through the visible creation. The material cosmos is so…

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CUTAWAYS: LEGEND

by David February 3, 2013

Oh sure, there’s plenty of things wrong with Ridley Scott’s epic fairy tale Legend, just ask every single person on the Internet and they’ll be happy to launch into a diatribe about shallow characters and inappropriate use of modern vernacular.…

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THINGS TO COME: WORLD WAR Z

by David February 1, 2013

On Superbowl Sunday, millions of people around the world will see this trailer, and I’m guessing there are a number of them who might be left with one question…

What is this movie about?
Oh sure, I know and you…

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THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 2–THE INSECT’S CHRISTMAS

by David December 27, 2012

Well, as fate (or good planning) would have it, Day 77 of reading through the Catechism in one year as a part of the Year of Faith recounts a familiar tale. “Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a…

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Second Sunday of Advent: A Season of Hope

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. December 7, 2012

Faith, hope, and love.  St. Paul, in I Corinthians 13:13, say these three are the bottom line.  They are called the theological virtues, the qualities that make us most like God.
We hear plenty about faith and love.  But when…

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Universality, Noble Accessibility and a Pop Culture that will Save the World

by David Clayton November 30, 2012

The principle of universality is not something I had considered in any depth at all until recently, when it was mentioned in a talk about sacred music. I have been reflecting on its meaning in other aspects of the culture…

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