Victor Hugo, whose sprawling novel is the basis of the theatrical and film smash musical Les Misérables, wasn’t exactly a good Catholic. But his soul was Catholic through and through, and so is“Les Mis,” a film that gives the restless…
Les Miserables
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The Academy Awards came and went without a Best Picture award for Les Miserables, nor for its incredible lead actor, Hugh Jackman. Fortunately, Anne Hathaway won an award for best supporting actress—much deserved.
If you haven’t…
Something unsettling happened on my way to Les Mis.
A middle-aged gentleman, iPhone in hand, laughed and texted out loud. No, not during the Thénardiers’ sequence — to which bewilderment and revulsion might be a more fitting response — but,…
There is no good reason to be suspicious of people of faith. There is every reason to encourage them and to be grateful for them, because even by worldly standards they make good citizens. But the State does not want…
