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SHORT FEATURE: STAR TREKKIN’

by David on May 22, 2013 · 0 comments

I’m sure those of you who have been reading my recent movie reviews over at Aleteia have figured out by now how the deal works over there. I spend most of the article talking about the film (as spoiler free…

SHORT FEATURE – THE APOCALYPSE

by David on April 23, 2013 · 0 comments

It was double duty time over at Aleteia again this past weekend as I watched Oblivion, the post-apocalyptic epic starring Tom Cruise, and HBO’s Girls, a show full of stupid people doing stupid things.
It got me to thinking, wouldn’t…

Should We Sell Vatican Art and Give the Money to the Poor?

by David Clayton on April 10, 2013 · 13 comments

Is this the Franciscan message? On the final Monday of Lent, Mass at Thomas More College was celebrated by one of the monks from St Benedict’s Abbey in Still River. It is always a pleasure to have them here because…

The Encounter of Easter

by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez on April 2, 2013 · 5 comments

Our Filipino brothers and sisters have a beautiful Easter devotion they call Salubong (“The Encounter”).
Gathering before dawn, they relive the meeting of the risen Jesus with his Blessed Mother on the first Easter morning. The women come from one…

Why Man Venerates Images of Angels, Even Though He is Higher than the Angels

by David Clayton March 1, 2013

From John of Damascus’s On the Divine Images
It is uncanny how often this sort of thing happens: if you read the Fathers, Scripture or the Liturgy, I find that just when I’m thinking about something I discover a passage…

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The Ten Weirdest Names for Jesus in the Bible

by Stephen Beale February 28, 2013

Jesus has many names in the Bible. In fact, there are well over one hundred of them—almost seven hundred according to one count.
 
In Scripture, a name signifies the mission and character of the one who bears it. Saul…

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Singing the Psalms with Victoria

by David Clayton February 14, 2013

And thinking about her in the week of her birthday
Not long ago I wrote an article in which I suggested ways of developing the cultural sensibilities of children, here. I have many blessings in my life and one is…

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GARGOYLES

by David February 11, 2013

THE PLOT
“Incorporating themes from horror films of both the ’50s and the ’70s, this suspenseful TV movie stars Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt as an archaeologist and his daughter, who discover a strange skull on display at a roadside…

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Are We Higher than the Angels and Archangels?

by David Clayton February 5, 2013

It may seem an impertinence to say so, but Pope Leo the Great seems to think so
Catholics are used to the idea that Our Lady is higher than the angels, but is it true for the rest of us?…

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CUTAWAYS: SUPERMAN II – GUILTY!

by David January 21, 2013

Is there anybody who reads this blog who doesn’t know this clip by heart?

What brought this scene to mind was a sobering statistic I ran into over at Servant and Steward which noted that while approximately 133,115,440 children have…

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