Have any of you folks been watching The Confession, on Hulu? I saw the first three chapters and found the confession scenes just riveting: When a cold-blooded hitman bursts into a hotel room to execute someone, the intended victim does something unexpected: he asks the hitman for a moment to make his peace with God. The hitman lowers his gun as the victim takes a chain with a crucifix from around his neck, holds it tightly in his hands, kneels... Read more
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Joseph Susanka, our resident movie maniac — you should read his piece on the future of film — sends this along. I likee! Stay with it; it’s very inventive and charming and winning! Read more
“No destructive action…can ever corrode the substance of Creation . . . there is a divinely guaranteed Goodness of being which no amount of mischief can undermine.” — Josef Pieper, In Tune With the World I saw as in letters of gold this word Goodness, which I repeated for a long while with an indescribable sweetness. I saw it, I say, written on all creatures, animate and inanimate, rational or not, all bore this name of goodness. I saw it... Read more
That’s a picture of our “last supper” in Rome – on the balcony, overlooking the Area Sacra, where Caesar was slain. Cheese, sweet plums, the fluffiest rosemary bread, wine and biscuits: After returning home, my husband and I tried very hard to hang on to as much of Italy as we could. I made ante pasta; we took walks; we ate more fruit! Every supper included a glass of wine and concluded with a cup of espresso… As winter came,... Read more
Well, everyone is shocked, and I keep saying it’s all the prayers that are being said on Joseph’s behalf by people all over the world (and of every religious persuasion, I think). On Sunday, when he was put on a ventilator, it seemed there was no hope and people were making their goodbyes. Tonight, there is hope. It’s a long story and I don’t have permission to go into details, but the crux is that Joseph’s last radiation treatment seems... Read more
I’ve asked several times over the past few weeks whether folks preferred the Disqus comments style of the usual and via comments and emails, the majority have made it clear that they preferred the older version. So, because I am nothing if not reasonable, we have restored the old commenting system to the blog. Now, you will be able to see the number of comments by looking at the bottom of the post, but you will not be able to... Read more
My column at First Things this week is a slightly enlarged response to a question I received in an email, from a young man who wrote: “I know the Church puts a high premium on docility, humility and the emptying of self,” he wrote, “but common sense tells me that none of those should involve self-lobotomizing. Please tell me I’m not wrong.” Good heavens, no—you’re very right. While I may not have the brain of an Aquinas or an Augustine,... Read more
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I’ve had a few emails asking me why I haven’t yet commented about the death of Geraldine Ferraro and fact that she will be laid to rest this Thursday after a funeral Mass. Frankly, I haven’t thought much about it. She battled blood cancer for over a decade, and it seems to me she bore that cross with a good deal of grace and discretion; many people did not even know she was struggling, and she did not seem to... Read more
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