Category: Media

Fatima: A Story Too Fascinating to Ignore — ...

Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies | 0 |

Mr. Jones: A Film About an Atrocity the World Has Tried to Forget

by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured, History, Media, Movies | 1 |

Mr. Jones is a film that should have been made years ago, but we can be grateful for it today.

The Mailbox Hoax and the Real Danger of Election Fraud

by Janet Morana | Aug 20, 2020 | 2020 Election, America, Media, Politics, Trump | 1 |

The kind of violence and lawlessness convulsing some U.S. cities recently is one example of how...

I know in my soul that Norma McCorvey wasn’t lying

by Janet Morana | May 22, 2020 | abortion, Catholic Church, Culture, Friendship, Media, Roe v. Wade | 4 |

I met Norma McCorvey in 1995 after she had been baptized in a backyard pool by Rev. Flip Benham,...

Father Frank Pavone on the pandemic and the anniversary of the death of a pro-life giant

by Leslie Palma | May 11, 2020 | 2020, 2020 Election, abortion, America, Bishops, Catholic Church, Culture, Friendship, Media | 1 |

Recently Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, sat down with me to talk...

The Benefits of Gaming

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 29, 2020 | Family, Media, Technology | 0 |

Without sports, theaters and restaurants, individuals and families need some fun to balance the drudgery of work and inconvenience. I recommend computerized gaming, but not just any sort. I prefer adventure games.

Cinematic Revelations: A Poem

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 5, 2020 | Culture, Featured, History, Media, Movies, Poetry | 0 |

Directors differ in their form of art,
From spoof to realistic history,
While casting actors for each part,
For drama, romance, comedy,
To craft a masterpiece or silly camp,
About a villain, saint or holy tramp.

Father Frank Pavone is Confronted by Journalists

by Father Frank Pavone | Oct 4, 2019 | abortion, Featured, Media | 6 |

I was invited to speak on “Abortion, Religion and the Courts” at this year’s conference of the...

From the Heights of the Last Century to the Present

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jan 7, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Humor, Manners, Media | 2 |

From Carol Burnett to Kathy Griffin, From Cecil B. DeMille to Michael Moore, From Walter Cronkite to Jim Acosta, From Johnny Carson to Jimmy Kimmel, From Dick Clark to Howard Stern…

The Real Obscenity in Robert De Niro’s “F*** Trump” Display

by Carl C. Curtis | Jun 26, 2018 | 2016 Election, America, Culture, Media | 0 |

There was a time such a stunt would have shocked the world of popular entertainment.

Please Consider the Morality of Your Memes

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Aug 17, 2017 | 2016 Election, America, Ethics, Featured, Media, Politics | 0 |

The reason that memes came into existence is that we have become so bombarded with words from advertisements to propaganda that we need to filter the cacophony to garner the gold dust from the sand.

BBC’s Grantchester: Father Brown It Ain’t

by Carl C. Curtis | Aug 12, 2017 | Books, Featured, Media, TV/Radio | 3 |

The PBS/BBC version [does] such violence to James Runcie’s creation that no true fan, except one star-struck with James Norton’s puling Sidney, could countenance the result.