Monthly Archives: November 2017

  By Manuel Betancourt For many of us, “Remember Me” (which is played for laughs and establishes the dashing musical icon Ernesto De La Cruz as the kind of cartoonish Pedro Infante of Coco’s world) is precisely what we worried … Continue reading →

By Carol Zimmerman For the movie, Father Paul Keller gave four homilies and a small portion of one was used in the film, but he also led the “congregation” of actors in prayer and distributed ashes for an Ash Wednesday service … Continue reading →

By Eloise Blondiau, America Magazine In “Lady Bird,” I saw for the first time in film a Catholic girls’ school as I remember it—brimming with kindness, weirdness, friendship and rebellion…. Although this is a film saturated in Catholic imagery and … Continue reading →

Roy Orbison once said, “people often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to remembered.” If Orbison could look back these almost-30 years now after his death (on Dec. 6, … Continue reading →

Nice profile of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X “We know exactly who we are; we know exactly what we’ve done and why we did it,” Exene Cervenka asserts. “We know what all the mistakes were, we know what … Continue reading →

Whatever you think of President Donald Trump or his spiritual advisor, the Rev. Paula White, this Washington Post profile by Julia Duin is great reporting. It was an early afternoon in late July, and Paula White was holding court before … Continue reading →

“When I was growing up, Billy Graham was very popular,” recalled music superstar Bob Dylan two years ago in AARP Magazine. “He was the greatest preacher and evangelist of my time — that guy could save souls and did. I went … Continue reading →