Two years ago, I was confirmed in the Catholic Church with a group of eighth graders. Having been in Canada on a book project, and unwilling to wait for Easter, I took my vows with a group of awkward kids who barely understood the words they recited. Me, a pastor of twelve years with a Masters of Divinity degree, no better than the kid in front of me who probably spent the morning playing Halo. A few days later, a... Read more
*Spoilers ahead* To be honest, I wasn’t prepared for what I saw. From what I’d read, it seemed as if The Revenant was just another Western revenge movie, of which there are Legion, including The Hateful Eight, the newest film by Quentin Tarantino. But if it’s a Western, it’s a Western as meditation on redemptive suffering. How those reviews and articles missed that most basic part of the story is beyond me, but The Revenant is one of the most... Read more
“…people often seemed perplexed by Frank and Maisie’s enthusiasms, and published them with little hope of success. But the enthusiasms were right for America, and Sheed and Ward helped at least to shade in the outlines of a counter-Catholicism to which a civilized person could repair.” —Wilfrid Sheed, Frank and Maisie: A Memoir With Parents I’m obsessed with Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward. Wilfrid (their son) says their marriage and their publishing house (once considered the “Tiffany” of Catholic publishing in America) served... Read more
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