Following your bliss is not about gratifying your personal desire for pleasure; it is about “doing what you absolutely must do to be yourself.”
Slap-Stick Education
If my father were alive to today and read this account of my “education” under the care of the Christian Brothers, he would most likely say, “Good discipline in those days if you ask me. Anyway, you survived, didn’t you?”
The Catholic Church and Homosexuality: “Who Am I to Judge?”
While a recent article by a Jesuit intellectual makes a valiant attempt to open the door for a more conciliatory approach in the Church’s dealing with LGBTQ people, in the end it misses the mark.
Going to Bali? Visit the North
If you go to Bali, make an effort to get to the north. Rent a car, take a taxi or bus, hire a driver, whatever; the cost is not steep and the experience – so very different from what you will find in the south – will be well worth the few extra dollars you will spend.
Taken Too Soon
Why is it that artistic brilliance is so often accompanied by such unfathomable emotional and psychological dysfunction and suffering that the star implodes and we are left with darkness long before we have been touched by all its facets?
From Cad to Dad: A Review of “Kramer vs. Kramer”
Dustin Hoffman gives an outstanding performance as Ted Kramer, a career-obsessed Dad whose six-year-old son teaches him about love.
My Top Five Courtroom Dramas
A courtroom is an ideal setting for the dramatic playing out of conflict between two sides of an issue, the heart of all compelling stories. Here are five classics in the genre.
Pastoral Pope, Pastoral Church?
In the first six months of his pontificate Francis I has proposed a radically different view of the Church. Will he live long enough or remain pope long enough for this view to filter down to dioceses and parishes around the world? Perhaps he needs the help of the people in the pews.
Mistrial: A Review of “The Verdict”
While the story is compelling and the acting strong, lapses in credibility weaken what could have been a powerful film.
If You Can’t Fix It, You Gotta Stand It: A Review of “Brokeback Mountain”
Director Ang Lee’s beautiful rendering of the bittersweet Annie Proulx story of two lonely cowboys who fall in love on a Wyoming mountain in 1963.
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