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Everybody dance!
By
deacon greg kandra
Anyone who’s seen it knows you can’t help but grin and bop along to the jubilant, delightful finale of “Slumdog Millionaire.” It’s favored to win the Oscar tomorrow night. And it should. Watch below and dance!
“Our Jonathan…”
By
deacon greg kandra
This is too funny to pass up: a self-described “collapsed” Catholic (Alec Baldwin) finds himself dating a beautiful woman (Selma Hayek) who takes her faith very seriously. They go out on a date that includes mass. And he’s worried they may lose their table at a swanky restaurant. Watch and howl. (A grateful wave of…
It humbles earthly pride: singing the Exultet
By
deacon greg kandra
Last year, I had my first experience scaling the Everest of liturgical chant, the Exultet. (I blogged about that, and my first Triduum, here, and that account was recently reprinted in Deacon Digest.) I know a few guys who now find themselves in the same position I was in last year: staring at the calendar,…
Scorcese plans film on Japanese martyrs
By
deacon greg kandra
From Zenit‘s Hollywood desk: An Academy Award-winning director is planning a movie on Japanese Christians martyred in the 17th century. Martin Scorsese will film the movie in New Zealand and release it in 2010, according to the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun. Names of actors linked to the project include Daniel Day-Lewis (pictured on the left),…
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