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From the WSJ: Claudia Rosett viewed The Passion of the Christ in Poland and went to Auschwitz What I had not anticipated was that “The Passion,” in its frenzy to convey suffering, would inspire an urge not to weep, but chiefly to wince. Whatever faith or beliefs individual moviegoers may bring to the theater, what…

Here’s a Detroit Free Press article highlighting new DVD releases out today. Schindler’s List is the big one, but also out today is Far more tasteful is 1972’s “Brother Sun, Sister Moon” (TWO STARS out of four stars, Paramount, $14.99), from director Franco Zeffirelli. This is a flower-power biography of St. Francis of Assisi, the…

A column in the Jerusalem Post takes on James Carroll. Perhaps most inexplicable, given the writer’s awareness of the lethal impact of the inculcation of hatred against Jews in Europe, is his apparent refusal to credit Palestinian hate-indoctrination as the underlying cause of the savage attacks against Jews in Israel. Instead, readers are offered platitudes…

Today’s “Make new American bishops day” at the Vatican, I guess: – Appointed Bishop Robert Joseph McManus, auxiliary of the diocese of Providence, U.S.A., as bishop of Worcester (area 3,966, population 762,207, Catholics 390,207, priests 373, religious 650), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Daniel Patrick Reilly whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese…

Joseph Epstein dissects the American fixation on youth At a certain point in American life, the young ceased to be viewed as a transient class and youth as a phase of life through which everyone soon passed. Instead, youthfulness was vaunted and carried a special moral status. Adolescence triumphed, becoming a permanent condition. As one…

Michael beat me to it. Could this have been the worst Jesus film ever made? he asks. Yes, probably, I say. We were shrieking with laughter…”My father’s told me everything I have to do. You aren’t ready to handle the details yet…. Paulists….Gibson….Paulists…Gibson…..hmmm….

An editorial in the most recent issue of America While recognizing that bishops have no canonical authority over one another, the National Review Board calls for “fraternal correction” of bishops by bishops. Such fraternal correction is rare but not unheard of. Cardinal Bernard Law and others openly criticized Cardinal Joseph Bernardin for his participation in…

Here. Blogging lameness, that is. Joseph generally doesn’t go to the sitter’s on Monday, so that means it’s grocery shopping day, and often there’s blogging that happens in the morning, but not today, because I was busy sending out copies of the Da Vinci Code pamphlet to people I think might care, and now I…

For you, for me, for everyone! Tuesday afternoon, I’m speaking to four groups of 4th and 5th graders at a local Catholic school, then on Thursday, I must rise at the crack of dawn and drive down to Indianapolis to speak at a middle-school youth rally at Holy Name school. 500 middle school kids. Me…

…whatever. Canadian Christian writer catches hell for not liking TPOTC very much In the past week I’ve been called “sick,” I’ve been told to keep my “big fat mouth shut.” I’ve been told I write “garbage,” I’ve been called various anti-Semitic names. I’ve been abused, insulted, threatened. Why? Because I dared to say that while…
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