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December 2015

December 11, 2015

Remembrance of Sins Past: Book 341

The thing about him that struck me first was his mode of dress, which was...

December 10, 2015

A Maverick Marian Moment

Yesterday evening, I planned to write contra Trump, to damn him for a mountebank, an...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Are We Ready for Our “Holocaust Literature” Yet?

This past Saturday on Facebook, a friend of mine posted an e-mail forwarded her from...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

An American Sniper…from A Critical Distance

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Colonel, USMC (ret.) was fond of promising, “Show me a hero, and...

February 2014

February 02, 2014

Renouncing Woody

I admit I'm going to miss "The Whore of Mensa." And "Match Wits with Inspector...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

“Sorry, Guys, Still Catholic”

On November 19, Salon ran a piece by a Catholic re-vert named Kaya Oakes titled...

August 2013

August 04, 2013

The Hidden Blessings of a Feminist Mother

Rod Dreher thinks Lynn Messina's a bad mother, and he thinks that's a hoot. In...

April 2013

April 07, 2013

Broken Silence

On Saturday afteroons, there's a special stillness in the air of churches, a vacuum like...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

Addicted to Faith Films

You’ve got to hand it to St. Augustine. In his Confessions, he records his evolution...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Confessions of a Lowbrow

Frank Sinatra made a more convincing priest than Bing Crosby ever did. Call it blasphemy...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

Save the Kitsch!

Fr. Jim Martin is a brave man. He has made a personal crusade of re-interpreting...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

Sendak’s Not-so-Wild Things

Researching last week's piece on tattooing revived somewhat my old interest in Polynesian culture. With...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

The Best Hippy-Dippy Catholic Movie Ever

A naked blonde lies staked to the ground, straddled by a man who means to...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Romero and Sweet Schmaltz

A little more than halfway through the film Romero, the title character, played by Raul...

January 2012

January 02, 2012

The Artiste and the Soldier Should Be Friends

Among the regulars on the right-wing discussion board where I provided some of the loyal...

December 2011

December 08, 2011

Confession of Sam the Eagle

The folks at Fox have been wondering whether the Muppets are trying to “brainwash kids...

December 05, 2011

A Merry Post-Modern Christmas

Can anyone hear the song “Bells of St. Mary’s” without remembering the scene in Goodfellas...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Qadaffi, Video, and the Magic of Martyrdom

If you're going to kill a bad man, you might as well put on a...

October 08, 2011

Martin Sheen: Broken, Bowed and Happy

Making Apocalypse Now pulled Martin Sheen into the heart of his own personal darkness. His...

July 2011

July 17, 2011

The Magic of Family Entertainment

One Friday evening when I was about eight, my mother came home and announced that...

June 2011

June 07, 2011

Jud Süss, the Myth and the Man

A few days ago, in attacking the apparently hateful caricatures of Jews in Foreskin Man,...

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