Category: FILMS AND BOOKS

  • December 26, 2013

‘Gimme Shelter’ film highlights plight of homeless pregnant teens

Pro-life leaders from around the Diocese of Phoenix were treated to a preview Dec. 13 of “Gimme Shelter,”...
  • December 21, 2013

Media guide to Christmas programming (part 2)

Television program notes from Catholic News Service and EWTN tips viewers off to relevant Christmas programming through movies,...
  • December 11, 2013

Media guide to Christmas programming (part 1)

Television program notes from Catholic News Service and EWTN tips viewers off to relevant Advent and Christmas programming...
  • November 23, 2013

‘A Christmas Candle’: A meditation on faith and works
  • October 31, 2013

Free Birds: Intense, good fun with a tasty resolution
  • August 19, 2013

Civil rights flick demonstrates complexity of the movement

While it’s often referred to as “the civil rights movement,” the network that promoted the equal treatment of...
  • July 31, 2013

Top 10 parables of faith on screen

Since the advent of cinema in the late 1800s, faith has been treated on film in a wide...
  • July 17, 2013

BOOKS: ‘Life Lessons from Life with My Brother, Timothy Cardinal Dolan’

He’s a rockstar, literally bigger than life. His red cassock glows with the love of the Church. He’s...
  • June 16, 2013

BOOKS: ‘When Jesus Was Twelve’: Cultural context, clearer vision

We’ve all read and heard the story of 12-year-old Jesus accompanying Mary and Joseph to Jerusalem for the...
  • May 15, 2013

‘Tweet Inspiration’: Bible Geek brings Scripture to Twitter

Many years ago, in Quezon City, the governing General Chapter of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, established...