Short Features

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…

What, like we were gonna have twelve straight days of Christmas related clips without including this classic scene from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special.

For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is…

Well, Christmastime is almost over. We’ll have to wait another year for all the decorations and candy canes and radio stations incessantly playing secular Christmas carols. For some reason though, despite the fact that it never once mentions the baby…

My ten year old is a diehard LOTR junkie, so like many other families we found ourselves going to see Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit during the holiday season. And why not? I mean, what could go together more naturally than…

THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 7: E.T.A.

by David January 1, 2013

Ah, New Years Eve. I never really was much one for partying on this particular day. Maybe it’s because by the time I hit drinking age I was already working at a movie theater and typically found myself ringing in…

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THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 6: THE MOST AWFUL FAMILY IN BRITAIN

by David December 31, 2012

Today on this 6th day of Christmas we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family, a group of people Pope John Paul II once described as an “example for all Christian and human families… [one which] radiates genuine love and…

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THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 4: THE WALKING DEAD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

by David December 29, 2012

Ah, Christmastime. No matter what circumstances we find ourselves in, we always try to make this time of year as pleasant as humanly possible for our children don’t we? Why, I bet if the zombie apocalypse were to ever actually…

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SHORT FEATURE: KATE BUSH – EXPERIMENT IV

by David October 29, 2012

The attempt to read through the Catechism in one year as part of the Year of Faith continues, and as often happens around these parts, my brain is making some pretty weird pop culture associations. For instance, the reading for…

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SHORT FEATURE: REVERSE PARTHENOGENESIS

by David May 11, 2012

So, why has the Catholic Church teamed up with NeoStem, Inc. to promote adult stem cell research? Why does the Vatican continue to operate one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world? And why was the Pontifical Academy…

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SHORT (SORT OF) FEATURE: MULTI-TREKKING

by David April 27, 2012

As is probably obvious from the dearth of posting over the past two weeks, I’m stuck in the middle of one of my quarterly work related nightmares. So, basically, I just haven’t had the time to blog, or do much…

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