At the end of Mass this morning in my central London church my parish priest stepped forward to read the powerful gracious and unambiguous statement on clerical sex abuse issued last Friday by the Catholic bishops of England and Wales The repeated use of the words shame scandal crimes r

Well not exactly Arch Street but close enough Many years ago after graduating from college nbsp I was nbsp backpacking through nbsp Europe on a nbsp Eurailpass with a friend and also with just a few dollars in my pocket nbsp One day in Paris nbsp croissant in hand yes truly nbsp my compa

Richard Leonard rsquo s essay The Mystical Gaze rsquo and the DVD release of Avatar provide an opportunity to revisit the film nbsp nbsp Leonard helpfully points to the level on which the film works nbsp Endless reviews of its clich eacute d story line simply miss the point nbsp It rsquo

If you haven t done so already take a few minutes 12 to be exact to watch this trailer from the upcoming documentary Monse ntilde or The Last Days of Oscar Romero Having worked at two Catholic magazines I ve read a lot about the martyred archbishop but nothing compares to seeing this foot

We are extremely fortunate to have John Anderson writing for us nbsp Anderson one of our new film critics also writes regularly for The New York Times Arts amp Leisure section as well as for The Washington Post and Variety nbsp In fact you might have seen this recent piece he did in the Ti

Some commentators have seized on the notion that health care and jobs are competing priorities and that the president made a big mistake in putting health care ahead of jobs In a nutshell they are saying It rsquo s jobs stupid They might have had a point had the president made such a choice