(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Our most popular songs celebrate humanity’s most comfortable virtues—love, chief among them. Our sins don’t get as much poetic attention because, let’s face it, they don’t feel good. But leave…
(For the audio version of this review, please visit: ) The movie “Living” is the story of a dying man who’s born again—but not in the Christian sense. However, his story has many of the elements of Christ’s parables: a…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Aristotle taught that nature abhors a vacuum—that every space in nature needs to be filled with something. Like light, maybe? Well, way before Aristotle’s time, humans showed an amazing knack…
“Missing” is a story about the virtues and vices associated with information technology. It focuses on a mother and daughter who together participate in IT’s enslavements of them both. The mother uses IT to control her daughter and the daughter…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Some scriptures and psalms are addressed to victims. A couple of those psalms, like the ones selected for this Sunday’s Mass (Ps 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10) tell us God seeks justice…
Tonight I took my family to see M3ghan, a new sci-fi/horror movie. It’s really a modern take on the Frankenstein story. A female toy engineer conceptualizes and engineers a doll programmed with artificial intelligence that eventually evolves into self-awareness. The…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Our parish’s “Deacon Lou” started a recent homily with an inspiring quote: “What we are is God’s gift to us; what we become is our gift to God.” If you…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In this Sunday’s gospel reading from John (Jn 1:29-34), he quotes John the Baptist telling of a divine calling to testify to the presence among us of a savior he…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) For the world’s most powerful governments, Jesus raised their estimation of Bethlehem and Nazareth from little nothings to great threats. The threat came from many of the citizens of those…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Silent Night is one of our most beautiful Christmas songs. It’s as solemn as the solemnity we ascribe to its heroin, Mary—the mother of God. But if we stay silent…