Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Of course, Strictly by the numbers, it doesn’t add up. From The Wrap: This year, 168 films have carried the “restricted”  (R) rating, which requires youths under 17 to be accompanied by an adult, and they have taken in $2.3 billion at the box…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Kathie Lee’s Scandalous quest.  The iconic performer and talk show host spent a good part of the last dozen years inching toward bringing Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson to the Great White Way.  She wrote both the lyrics and the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. From Gandhi to Herod. From The Wrap: Ben Kingsley is circling the project “Mary Mother of Christ,” which has been dubbed as a prequel to Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Kingsley would play…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Mythbuster. Dr. Christopher Kaczor is a professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His published works include  The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics,  and How to Stay Catholic in College among others.…

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