JERUSALEM
On 25 February, the Ontario Science Centre held a media premiere for the National Geographic IMAX film Jerusalem. Writer, producer, and director Daniel Ferguson attended...
Saint Thomas’ Profundity: A Poem
(On this memorial of Blessed Duns Scotus, here is a poem on his near-contemporary, Saint Thomas, by high school senior, Brendan Brunet. If Mr....
Interview with Dorothy Cummings-McLean
What was your inspiration for A Ceremony of Innocence?
A Ceremony of Innocence is very much a tribute to Graham Green and his book The...
FaurĂ©’s Requiem
Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem between 1887 and 1890, with an initial premiere at a funeral in 1888. Some say that he was inspired...
Requiescat in Pace
Pope Francis (1936 - 2025), has died on this Easter Monday morning, after a controversial and often turbulent reign of just over 12 years....
Nebraska: A Review
Nebraska (2013)
Written by Bob Nelson
Directed by Alexander Payne
A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its...
Vivaldi’s Magnificat
Monsignor Antonio Vivaldi was not only one of the greatest of Baroque composers, but also a Catholic priest, who directed a girls' orphanage, for...
What Paganism Was Really Like
I serendipitously came across this article by Algis Valiunas - always worth reading - which describes what paganism was really like. Not the idealized...
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,...
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as...
