MOVIE REVIEWS: FOR GREATER GLORY

For Greater Glory, which tells the story of the Christero War, the Mexican government’s purported effort to stamp out the Catholic Church in 1926, has been nearly stamped out by the critics. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle dismisses it as “a scattered mess.” To Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times, it’s “a […]

THE VATICAN CONVERTS THE SIMPSONS

In its 22nd season, The Simpsons has not only received the blessings of the Vatican, but the family has now also been taken into the church itself. In an article headlined, “Homer and Bart are Catholics,” L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Catholic Church, commented on Sunday that the animated sitcom — the longest-running […]