Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?  – Edgar Allan Poe The film, The Pale Blue Eye, opens with this line from the famous poet, Edgar Allan Poe. It is a fictional […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly Based on a true story, Father Stu is an unflinchingly honest, funny and uplifting film about finding purpose in a most unexpected place. After surviving a terrible motorcycle accident, Stuart Long (Academy Award Nominee Mark Wahlberg) wonders if he can use his second chance to help others find their […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly A staple of junior high English curriculum is the reading of literature surrounding the Holocaust, or as we should refer to it as, the Shoah. During these formative years, Elie Wiesel’s Night and The Diary of Anne Frank are often fundamental texts used in school. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Book Thief, […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly In 2014, a novel by Anthony Doerr captured readers in the 500+ page novel, 16+ hour audiobook All the Light We Cannot See.  At the time of its release, I was a seminarian studying for the priesthood at Mundelein Seminary under (now) Bishop Robert Barron. In 2015, Barron penned an essay […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly A Father’s Heart, a new documentary from Goya Productions about St. Joseph will be in theatres on May 1st in English and May 2 in Spanish and will certainly reinvigorate a love for the foster father of Jesus among devoted Catholic faithful.  I recently had the chance to pre-screen it […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly A classic sports underdog movie is coming to theaters this Christmas.  It’s The Boys in the Boat, and it’s a movie inspired by true events as captured in the book The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown.  The […]