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Prayer Isn't News Sad to say, the media are not impressed by simple acts of faith.
Render unto Caesar? There are some decisions best not made by the government.
Escape from Reality Michael Jackson didn't really have a funeral -- at least not at the Staples Center
The Media's Stem Cell Confusion The confusion is especially likely for those who get their news from broadcast media, which are always looking for the shortest possible way to identify an issue. In a case like the stem cell research debate, one word is key: embryonic.
Debunking The Da Vinci Code Carl Olson and Sandra Miesel provide the definitive debunking of a book that might not have a single fact that is true within it.
Family Forum: Email at Its Best In a world of roughly 6.3 billion people, that amounts to at least 170 messages a year for every human being on the planet. And the vast majority don't even have computers yet.
Random Thoughts Isn’t it odd that Catholic pacifists, given a choice of two candidates who both say they will prosecute the war on terror to the full, would intervene on behalf of the candidate with a consistent anti-life record?
Refreshing water for TV New digital television channels have gone online in Canada and Spain, with visitor traffic exceeding the expectations of the dioceses that started them. The sudden influx of quality Catholic content on television and the Internet has been a refreshing sur
Hypocrisy and Sin I’d rather have someone in congress who advocates the right policy and falls short of practicing it than someone who advocates the wrong policy and behaves accordingly.
We don’t need a sequel OJ on TV - I’m changing the channel or turning it off. Television networks air programming that they think people want to watch. So the only way we get programming to change is by watching what we want and turning off what we don’t want.
Be Anything You Want to Be “The Church does not see itself able to ordain women, following the long and constant teaching of the Church.”
Fantasy Journalism Time Magazine recently engaged in what I would call “fantasy journalism.” Others might call this the “what if” school of reportage.
True Stories "Bella" joins an increasing number of movies that have a positive, Catholic message for today’s overly secular world. In fact, there are been several major films produced in recent years that aimed at the distinctly “conservative” Catholic audience.
Eternal Vigilance Family Police: when your children are invited to another home, ask the host parents whether they would be watching TV, and if so, what would it be. This will cause the other parents to pay closer attention to what they will expose your children to.
More than I Want to Know If we were to listen to what goes on in the locker room at halftime of a NBA game, either television folks would have to do a lot of bleeping or we would have to develop a new tolerance for profanity. Surely, neither would make the game more enjoyable.
And Now, a Word from Whose Sponsors? “Appropriate” is a word that has fallen out of use – and application. Advertisers and television networks ought to exercise a little judgment about what is proper to show.
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