Pope Benedict to meet with contemporary artists in the Sistine Chapel(video on You Tube) Pope Benedict plans to meet up to 500 artists from around the world in November. Comments from Micha : Dear Fr. Silvain Cloutier, I want to thank you for the kind article and picture of His Holiness Pope Benedictus XVI and [...]

Here are some interesting links and info on the film Angels & Demons (based on the novel by Dan Brown). – Fact-checking Angels & Demons (Decent Films) – Religion and Science in Angels & Demons (Decent Films) – Angels, Demons and Modern Fantasies About Catholicism (Word on Fire)

Every once in a while the Atlantic Monthly comes out with a serious article that is worth reading, even if it is pretty long.  Nicolas Carr has put out a long, dense piece about the impact of Google on how our brains are now humming along. I’m sure many people have seen this piece pop up in [...]

I’ve already gotten a number of questions about “The Golden Compass”, a new film that opened today in Montreal. A certain amount of controversy surrounds the film, primarily because of the background story from which it was developed, which is known to have an anti-religious slant. I figured that if I was going to be [...]

The Urban Legends Reference website Snopes.com has added an entry for the upcoming film The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman. Claim : The 2007 [Christmas-season] film the Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes. Status : True. CHECK IT OUT.

The first in a series of twelve films called the Epic Stories of the Bible (presented by Promenade Pictures) is coming out in theaters this week (in the U.S.) : The Ten Commandments. Unavoidably, it will draw comparisons to Dreamworks’ Prince of Egypt (1998) which in my opinion was already a great animation film (vastly [...]

Christian alternative rock singer Plumb (Tifanny Arbuckle Lee) just put out a new album! It already has great reviews from Christian Music Central. One thing is clear very quickly: Tiffany Arbuckle Lee, the artist known as Plumb, is supremely happy and content in her circumstances. I’m talking happy like a bug in a rug. The [...]

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has delivered a strong, moving double album of praise songs inspired (mostly) by passages of the Old Testament, including some psalms. Faith, hope, grief, longing, love and betrayal are some of the themes that are covered by the artist on “Theology”. Both discs offer the same songs recorded in two different [...]

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has delivered a strong, moving double album of praise songs inspired (mostly) by passages of the Old Testament, including some psalms. Faith, hope, grief, longing, love and betrayal are some of the themes that are covered by the artist on “Theology”. Both discs offer the same songs recorded in two different [...]

A long time ago in a blog far, far away…I published something regarding a CD I had received entitled On This Mountain. It was the last I had heard of Bill Kassels for many months — until a CD popped up in the mail containing something most interesting: an advance review copy of a radio [...]