Father’s Blog

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 [...]