National Catholic Reporter editorializes about "Spotlight"'s winning best picture at the Oscar ceremonies last evening:
Monday, February 29, 2016
A Movie Recommendation: "The Lady in the Van"
Since I've talked movies here earlier today, it occurs to me to recommend another film Steve and I saw this past weekend — Nicholas Hytner's "The Lady in the Van," which was written by Alan Bennett and based on his play of the same name, which in turns was based on material in Bennett's book of memoirs, Untold Stories (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). I blogged about Untold Stories here several years ago (and here and here), and, when I did so, included a posting about "The Lady in the Van."
"Spotlight" Shines Brighter, Wins Best Feature Oscar!
Well. This is amazing news to have awakened to this morning. Even as His Eminence Cardinal George Pell was saying the following in Rome after his security guards had strongarmed Australian journalists,*
Sunday, February 28, 2016
"I Love the Evangelicals!": More on Love Affair Between White Evangelicals and Donald Trump
Why Evangelicals Are Flocking To @realDonaldTrump: https://t.co/CoJkLIrokH pic.twitter.com/hPcziiKcJV— In These Times (@inthesetimesmag) February 23, 2016
As the week turns, more articles I'd like to recommend to you all about the hot and heavy love affair between white evangelicals and Donald Trump:
Thursday, February 25, 2016
"Here Comes Trump the Butcher with a Heaping Plate" of the Reddest of Meat: So Why Are White Evangelicals Flocking to Trump?
So how have we gotten here, in the nation with the soul of a church? How have we gotten to the point at which racism, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia of the grossest, most blatant and obvious sort has come out of the closet in our political process and is being mainstreamed, normalized, by one of our two major political parties?
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
More News: Scalia, Scalia, Scalia, and Trump, Trump, Trump (Plus Pope Francis)
And still more pieces of commentary I'd like to recommend to you today — these on political themes (but since Pope Francis has blessed Aristotle's definition of the human being as the animal politicum, perhaps it's fine to lump political and religious commentary together, especially in the nation with the soul of a church?):
In Catholic News: Smoke, Mirrors, and Pope Francis on Abuse; Pope's Zika-and-Contraception Remark; Diocese Settles with Employee Fired for Same-Sex Marriage; U.S. Bishops' College Plans to Fête Archbishop Viganò
Some bits and pieces of commentary that has caught my eye in recent days, which I want to pass on to you. These snippets are all commenting on recent Catholic-themed news stories:
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