September 14th, 2006
The Historic Elsinore Theater in Salem, Oregon is hosting its annual Wednesday Evening Film Series. It’s a nice boon to the community, giving folks an opportunity to watch some classic movies in an honest-to-goodness movie palace instead of a cookie-cutter movie stadium. (Silent films are even accompanied live by a vintage Wulitzer!)
This series will focus [...]
July 14th, 2006
There are so very many reasons for the Catholic reader to drink deeply of “the Classics”, not the least of which is that so much of the Western Canon, even when written by non-Catholics and (even) relatively un-religious people, is ultimately Christian and even Catholic in its root.
So it is with Charles Dickens, arguably the [...]
May 26th, 2006
And while we’re still at it (and while it’s available online), don’t miss this ruthless—brutal!—review—nay, evisceration!—of DVC from the venerable New Yorker by way of Anthony Lane.
Tony, dear, tell us what you really think.
May 25th, 2006
…or so, at least, declares my son John, whose very funny and insightful review of DVC is now up on GodSpy.com.
Thanks, dear, I needed a laugh.
May 19th, 2006
Though I cannot comment on the DVC film (as film) as such, I must say I am positively gleeful that the consensus is that it’s a dog, if for no other reason than because we can all stop talking (and hearing) about it that much sooner. I am so sick of this subject I [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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There is a sense of insignificance which is trying and discouraging and leads to envy of the rich and great. It leads also to a certain selfishness even amid poverty and absolute want. The absence of the ideal of the self as potentially great and capable of great deeds keeps it small and self-centred….The greatness of the Church, coupled with a true sense of the dignity of the individual human soul, if looked at as a Christian should look at it, is the true antidote.
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