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Top 10 Faith, Media & Culture stories: From fallout following the non-Apocalypse to a peek at NBC’s controversial “Playboy Club”
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today’s Top 10 items from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. And that’s the way it wasn’t. The world didn’t end on Saturday. Here’s how CBS News reported the non-Apocalypse. 2. Volcanic rupture — but not quite Rapture — in Iceland. From The Christian Post: On Saturday, a small island in…
“Family Guy” criticized as immoral by cast member’s son; “Flag of My Father” debuts at GI Film Festival; Plus CBS pilots
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John W. Kennedy
Family Guy is hardly family programming. So says the Parent Television Council’s Barbara Warburton who goes further and declares “Shows like these are leading toward the destruction of morality… nothing seems sacred anymore.” Her comments are particularly interesting because her son (actor Patrick Warburton) voices paralyzed cop Joe Swanson, one of the characters on the…
Jennifer Haigh’s “Faith” takes compassionate look at Catholic abuse scandals; plus a look at Fox TV pilots and other headlines
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John W. Kennedy
Faith takes novel approach to Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandals. I’m in the middle of a very interesting new book (due out today, in fact) about the McGanns, a fictional Boston-based Catholic family for whom the scandals in the Church really hit home. When Sheila McGann’s half brother Fr. Art Breen finds himself accused, she…
Faith-themed “Jumping the Broom” beats box office expectations; NBC’s fall pilots; Headlines starring Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise
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John W. Kennedy
Weekend box office: A hammer, fast cars and an outperforming broom sweep up 1. Thor Marvel’s Norse god of Thunder hammers down $66 million over its domestic debut his opening weekend. (No, being about a Norse god doesn’t necessarily make a movie “faith-based.”) 2.Fast Five Business remains fast and furious as the action sequel rakes…
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