As we are now safely outside of the Christmas Season, I think it is safe for me to write about one of the all-time great films, It’s a Wonderful Life. Yes, I know most people would think [...]
Well, it’s official: the dark side has won. No, I’m not talking about the evil Galactic Empire or its reincarnation as the First Order. I’m talking about The Walt Disney [...]
During the French monarchy, the death of the king would be announced simultaneously with the pronouncement of his successor’s accession. “Le roi est mort, vive le roi!” was [...]
While I personally have always been much more interested in the cinema than the stage, I nonetheless did work in the theater during high school and even managed to play Claudius in my high [...]
For the past few years, I have paid peripheral attention to the efforts by various Bay Area tech titans to cure humans of death. Back in 2013, Time Magazine splashed their September [...]
I have disappointed more than a few of our parishioners by not having the American flag placed in the church, even on Veterans Day. The custom of displaying the American flag in Catholic [...]
First, let me explain the incredible lapse in time between posts. I was overwhelmed with a variety of responsibilities both here in the parish as well as in my different assignments for work at [...]
“You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is the land of the wolves now.” These words are spoken by the mysterious Alejandro (played by Benicio Del Toro) in the new [...]
Late on Wednesday evening, I received word that Toni Diem had passed from this world into the next. The Church of St. Francis Xavier is a richer parish thanks to Toni’s service as our [...]
A friend and I ventured to the Minnesota Zoo’s IMAX theater recently to see Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, a telling of the famous high wire walk performed by Philippe Petit between the [...]