“I don’t see how any review could really spoil what may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made. I would tell you to go out and see it for yourself, but you might take that as a recommendation rather than a plea for corroboration. Did I really see what…

You never know what you’ll find around the blogosphere, and one of my recent happy discoveries is a shiny new blog (with an appropriately Celtic green tinge) that belongs to Patrick McNamara, from (surprise!) the Diocese of Brooklyn. Patrick is an archivist for the diocese, and has just launched McNamara’s Blog, a treasure trove of…

“Catholics who get caught up in complaining about how the press or Hollywood treats us are wasting precious airtime and energy, and they sound like every other whining, hurt-feelings group on the planet — crabbed and weak. The gospel message is not contained in any of that. Catholics need to remember that the challenges of…

The always-interesting John Allen has some insight and context in today’s New York Times regarding the Vatican’s new document Dignitas Personae: The roughly 67 million Catholics in the United States make up nearly one-quarter of the American population, but just 6 percent of the global Catholic total of 1.1 billion. Ninety-four percent of the Catholics…

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