Why Hollywood keeps remaking ‘Frankenstein’
It is not so much that the Frankenstein epic as imagined by Mary Shelley more than 200 years ago is making a comeback. It’s that it has never left. The current Oscar-nominated film “Poor Things”...
View ArticleA Church’s responsibility to true beauty
I have reached that age where I prefer to listen to people talking on the radio as opposed to singing. Since my musical tastes and preferences are varied and frankly, a little weird, I could never find...
View ArticleThe Catholic Church should be on the side of space explorers
It was disappointing to learn that the first manned test flight of the Artemis space program has been postponed to the end of 2025. If that goes as planned, and successfully launches four astronauts...
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What I saw on Palm Sunday in LA’s hipster capital
It is hard to imagine what the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles looked like in 1921, the year that St. Teresa of Avila Church was founded. The Glendale freeway offramp that faces the church...
View ArticleWhen Our Lady of Guadalupe gets misrepresented, that’s a bad sign
Google’s recent foray into using artificial intelligence (AI) has shown us that AI is not only something to worry about in the future, but it has the ability to be a problem in the past. Gemini AI...
View ArticleThe rise of faith-based moviemaking
The creators of world-famous MGM Studios obviously thought having a live, roaring lion opening every one of their movies did not pack enough punch. They added a motto — and in Latin, nonetheless — to...
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