Ian was planning on receiving his First Holy Communion at midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. That joyful event was exactly one week away. We were in Dallas Children’s Hospital that morning having a CT scan done on our seven-year-old first communicant’s head. When my untrained eye saw the horrifyingly large tumor on the screen, I
It’s hard to overstate the soaring achievement of Peter Jackson and company in The Return of the King, the third and final chapter of their historic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. To call it the grandest spectacle ever filmed is no exaggeration; it may also be the most satisfying third act of any
I have waited a few weeks before weighing in on the brouhaha that has developed over the comments made by Army Lt. General William G. “Jerry” Boykin, the Bush administration’s Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. I wanted to make sure of my words, because the way Boykin was treated has much to teach us
History will likely record December 13, 2003 as the tipping point in the liberation of Iraq. Of course, much of importance preceded that moment — the U.S.-led invasion of the country, the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the beginnings of an expensive and time-consuming reconstruction. Still, there is reason to believe that, when American
Dear Grace: You pointed out in a recent column that Mary was a perpetual virgin. If this is so, then how is it that her marriage to Joseph can be understood to have been a valid marriage? I have always thought that the Church requires consummation for the bond to be sacramental and that non-consummation
A wise slogan recommends we occasionally “stop and smell the roses.” Likewise, Allen Wright’s excellent new book “Silent Witnesses in the Gospels” (St. Anthony Messenger Press, $11.99, 230 pages) advises us to stop and breathe in the Gospels anew, seeing them from a wholly different perspective. A Fresh Look at Familiar StoriesBut in Silent Witnesses,
The discovery of Saddam Hussein in a crypt-like hole, hidden by bricks and dirt, in a farm house in a small town near Tikrit, brings to mind the story of another Iraqi who also hid from the authorities by literally going underground. That Iraqi would be Jawad Amir Sayyid, 45, of Karada, a town south-east
No matter what one may think of the philosophy embodied in The Matrix movies, we have to recognize that millions of young adults across the country are being influenced by the way it talks about faith. As we saw in Part One, while these movies have a pretty skewed understanding of faith in some respects,
Jesus, Mary & DaVinci with Elizabeth Vargas to be telecast tonight on ABC, is living proof that some in the media will stop at nothing to generate controversy in the drive to capture viewer interest. Based on the best-selling novel, The DaVinci Code, the program claims to “investigate” the controversial contentions of that Dan Brown
To counter the modern perversion of the human person, Familiaris Consortio confronts the dualistic tendency of our age by “going back to the beginning” and grounding our thinking in the original creative act. The anthropology the pope develops protects the essential dignity of the body and the human person. Body-Persons [Editor's Note: This is the
The greatest hunger, Mother Teresa always said, was the hunger for love. The greatest poverty, the poverty of love. When she looked at the West, she didn’t see power, progress, and prosperity, she saw lonesome valleys filled with the brokenhearted, the almost living: Prophet to a Lost Generation (Editor's Note: This is the second in
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