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Who is my Neighbour?

Many Hollywood films are frankly unfit for human consumption. But there are exceptions films that treat important subjects and ideas in a way that a thinking Christian can affirm. Such a film opens tomorrow.

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Kingdom of Heaven

Sir Ridley Scott's Crusades movie, Kingdom of Heaven, though visually impressive as we might expect, is shockingly unhistorical.

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I saw "The Passion"

So I was at a private screening at Icon Productions yesterday, and got to see a rough cut of "The Passion". There were about twelve people in the room, including Mel Gibson, his producing partner Steve and four or five other Icon staffers.

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On Romance

I've been watching old Jimmy Stewart movies again, which always has a strong effect on me.

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Worlds of Meaning

Stories, in short, help to make sense out of our lives. There is a wonderful example of this in the film version of Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling's tale of life aboard the Gloucester fishing schooners.

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God's Secret Agent: Interview with Sue Thomas

At the age of eighteen months, Sue Thomas was watching television with her family when she suddenly went deaf. After years of extensive therapy, she learned to speak and mastered the skill of lip-reading. Through a series of providential events, Sue ended up working at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC where she became involved in undercover surveillance using her ability to read lips.

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An Emotional Stimulus to Piety

By the time St. Peter's Basilica was completed during the reign of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605) the Catholic Counter-Reformation had inspired a new architectural expression which, while grounded in the Classicism of the Renaissance, was rightly understood as revolutionary in many respects.

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Outback Benedictines adopt cultural business methods

Your drawing is much better than ours.: So said Hugo Chapman of the British Museum when confronted with a tempera study of a head from Raphaels workshop. This head of an apostle is notable not only for its quality but also for its ownership: the community of Benedictine monks of New Norcia, western Australia.

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