Why Are Catholics Not Holier Than They Are? Father Paul Quay’s ‘The Mystery...
(I thought this memorial of the great Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier was a fitting day to post this adaptation of an address I offered...
Treasure and Tradition: The Ultimate Guide to the Latin Mass
“This is not a ‘religious service’ or a scripture class; this is Heaven on Earth: it is where our God comes to us.”
The...
The Eyes of the Heart: A Movie Review of “Prince of Foxes”
Year: 1949
Filming: Black & White
Length: 107 minutes
Genre: Adventure/Drama/History/Swashbuckler
Maturity: PG (for intense thematic elements)
Cast: Tyrone Power (Andrea Orsini), Orson Welles (Cesare Borgia), Wanda Hendrix (Camilla...
Captain Fantastic and Hollywood’s Anti-Catholicism
Viggo Mortensen, the same actor who played Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seems to enjoy getting naked in his non-Tolkien films,...
Festival and Ferial, by Anna Rist: A Review
Festival and Ferial
Anna Rist
Kaufmann Publishing, St. Simon’s Island , 2014
ISBN : 978-0-9905329-3-4
In one of his Odes (IV.2) Horace describes the danger of trying to...
Tolkien’s Legacy
The death of Christopher Tolkien as a nonagenarian ends a legacy, for it was this youngest son of the great J.R.R. that took –...
Bound by a Seal: A Movie Review of “I Confess”
Year: 1953
Filming: Black & White
Length: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama/Inspirational/Religious/Suspense
Maturity: PG (for intense thematic elements)
Cast: Montgomery Clift (Fr. Michael Logan), Anne Baxter (Ruth Grandfort), O.E. Hass...
So Let it Be Written: A Movie Review of the Ten Commandments
(A recent review of an older film, the Ten Commandments hearkens back to a more golden, and more innocent, era of Hollywood. Much better...
The Twilight of American Enlightenment
The average age of North Americans is forty-one; this means that most people have no personal recollection of the decade of the 1950s, the...
A Review of Colin Ian Jeffery’s ‘Sorrows and Joys’
REVIEW: Sorrows and Joys --- Colin Ian Jeffery
ISBN: 978197459830
Paperback £5.14 Amazon or any good bookshop
Collection of 212 poems
Colin Ian Jeffery is a leading Christian...