| RE: A Personal Response to President Bush's Address to the Nation |
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filiaecclesiae says: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Matthew 5:9It should never be denied that the atrocities committed by Saddam were precisely that - atrocities. However, the American motivation in attacking him and his regime was ... |
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| RE: Behind the Wall: A Bethlehem Christmas |
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Austen Ivereigh says: I apologise for any offence given by implying that Americans are ignorant of the situation in Bethlehem - but the brutal fact is that they are, as the survey mentioned in the article clearly shows. It is an ignorance shared by the British - including ... |
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| RE: Behind the Wall: A Bethlehem Christmas |
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Josiah says: I guess I must be one of the ignorant Americans referred to in this article, because there are a few things I still don't understand. If the security wall is what's driving Christians out of Bethlehem, why is it that the exodus of Christians from Bethlehem ... |
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| RE: Miraculous Conception: A review of Children of Men |
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dannyboy says: Please. Don't preach to me about literary complexity. I'm no fan of the thin gruel that often attempts to pass as religious 'art'. I'm not looking for films that attempt to bombard us with some kind of sentimental, saccharine vision of humanity. ... |
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| RE: Miraculous Conception: A review of Children of Men |
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DLMurphy says: I could not agree more than with the last two posters, RyanusRex and cscaperl. I cannot tell you how frustrating it is, as an editor trying to find really good Catholic fiction to publish, to see manuscript after manuscript in which even competent writers ... |
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| RE: Miraculous Conception: A review of Children of Men |
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cscaperl says: I just wanted to take a moment and respond to Danny Boy. As someone who was thoroughly impressed with Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth (and Babel to complete the Mexican director trifecta) both for their pure artistry and for their gentle weaving ... |
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| RE: Miraculous Conception: A review of Children of Men |
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RyanusRex says: To say that the movie is pro-life, not "Pro-Life," describes the film's ethos very well. The film's primary goal is not evangelization, much less political action. Those goals are inappropriate as primary goals for art, anyway. The Christian world ... |
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dannyboy says: OK, yes, a brilliant movie in many ways. But a deeply confused movie in many other ways. Can a movie that valorizes a hippie-hero's euthanizing of his wife be called pro-life? I think in many ways this movie, like Pan's Labyrinth, exceeds its maker ... |
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| RE: Mel Gibson: Signs and Contradictions |
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ScholarChanter says: Debra Murphy is very astute: she notes the "under-the-radar" critique of current culture of death in the movie Apocalypto, which is something I did not pick up until she mentioned it. Even if the movie showed the sacrifice of children, I don't think ... |
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| RE: Boinking Without Oinking: A Review of �Female Chauvinist Pigs� |
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leclta says: Wow, we are asking an awful lot of one woman's book. Seriously, we expect her ideas about feminism to "take women out of the "freedom and power" of being sexual objects" all by themselves? Come on, let's just see the book for what it is -- a great ... |
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