2015-05-17T13:50:41-08:00

Last updated on: May 17, 2015 at 1:50 pm   By

Recently, I wrote a blog post about the exploding world of online video, about how there are tools available now to both professional and amateur videographers and filmmakers that allow them to create beautiful, sophisticated clips — and that these videos could be the most powerful weapons in the war for souls called the New Evangelization. Then, lo and behold, up on my Facebook page pops a 2014 video by Chris Stefanick of RealLifeCatholic.com, a excerpt from his confirmation series,... Read more

2015-05-14T06:53:46-08:00

Last updated on: May 14, 2015 at 6:53 am   By

With the announcement of shows like ABC’s midseason comedy “The Real O’Neals,” which uses a stereotyped caricature of a Catholic family for laughs, it’s tempting for folks like us to throw up our hands and yield the field, to turn off our TVs and vow that neither us nor any of our kin will have anything to do with the entertainment industry. Don’t. We’re on the precipice of an explosion of content (the umbrella term for anything involving words and pictures), available on... Read more

2015-05-13T15:36:05-08:00

Last updated on: May 13, 2015 at 3:36 pm   By

Until this year, I’d never even seen a whole episode of “American Idol,” but I met Clark Beckham at a Fox-sponsored party for the Top 12 in early March, and was so impressed with him that I’ve been following him and the show ever since. Here’s a picture from that night: By all appearances, Beckham is a good guy and a strong, articulate Christian — click here, here and here for earlier stories in which he talks very eloquently about his... Read more

2015-05-13T07:59:55-08:00

Last updated on: May 13, 2015 at 7:59 am   By

UPDATE 2: The trailer is also on YouTube, and now we’re back in business! UPDATE: Shortly after this was posted, access to the video (and to most of the other ABC trailer videos) was shut down on the sites that had posted it. It’s hard to describe what goes on in it, except to say that it’s a savage, if you will, caricature of a Catholic family and the Faith, where the parents are divorcing, one son has anorexia, the... Read more

2015-05-11T22:39:02-08:00

Last updated on: May 11, 2015 at 10:39 pm   By

The very ideology that championed freedom of expression in the ’60s and led the charge into the Sexual Revolution has now declared victory for itself … and the power to dictate what can and cannot be said is apparently one of the spoils of war. In an extensive interview with Christianity Today, Fox News contributor, Democrat, self-proclaimed liberal and former Clinton administration staffer Kirsten Powers talks about her new book, “The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech,” published on Monday, May 11.... Read more

2015-05-09T18:39:20-08:00

Last updated on: May 9, 2015 at 6:39 pm   By

Like classical theater and many other Bible adaptations, we’re not to pay too much attention to the ethnicities of the cast in NBC’s “A.D.: The Bible Continues,” whether it’s Irishman Vincent Regan as Pontius Pilate, Argentinean Juan Pablo Di Pace as Jesus, or Zimbabwe-born Chipo Chung as Mary Magdalene. Born to a Zimbabwean government official and a mother descended from Chinese immigrants to the southern African nation, cum laude Yale graduate Chung has brought fire and verve to the role... Read more

2015-05-09T11:32:17-08:00

Last updated on: May 9, 2015 at 11:32 am   By

You know those stories that always promise you’ll bawl like a baby? Yeah, this one just may do it. On Reddit, Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind “Sesame Street’s” Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird for the last 46 years, was doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) to promote a new documentary about him called, “I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story.” He said this about the movie: If you like the Muppets – it’s a movie for anybody. It... Read more

2015-05-09T10:24:07-08:00

Last updated on: May 9, 2015 at 10:24 am   By

One sign of a resilient spirit is the ability to find humor in the wake of misfortune — and to be able, no matter your stature or situation, to laugh at yourself. Bono and “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon showed how that goes in this clip from last night’s episode on NBC, a response to a terrifying bicycle accident the U2 frontman suffered in late 2014: From BBC.com: U2 frontman Bono says he fears that he may never play guitar... Read more

2015-05-08T08:34:18-08:00

Last updated on: May 8, 2015 at 8:34 am   By

If you’re expecting the appearance of “A.D.: The Bible Continues” on NBC to be a harbinger of things to come on network television, don’t start saying your thanksgiving rosaries just yet. The drama, based on the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and other historical sources regarding the years after the Crucifixion, is not exactly burning up the ratings charts — although, at 5.47M viewers for the last episode, it’s not a disaster either — and it’s definitely on the... Read more

2015-05-07T12:08:33-08:00

Last updated on: May 7, 2015 at 12:08 pm   By

When you stand to pray, forgive anyone against whom you have a grievance, so that your heavenly Father may in turn forgive you your transgressions. … Mark: 11:25 In one chapter of her new book, “And the Good News Is …: Lessons and Advice From the Bright Side,” Dana Perino, one of the co-hosts on Fox’s weekday roundtable show “The Five,” recalls a 2008 incident when she was press secretary for President George W. Bush. One of her predecessors, Scott... Read more

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