As a Yankees fan, I was thrilled when a gorgeous new coffee table book, “The Final Season: The Official Retrospective” by Alfred Santasiere III and Mark Vancil came across my desk. The book details the final season at the original Yankee stadium–from Pope Benedict XVI’s visit, holding mass for tens of thousands of Catholics to…

In these three clips from the “VeggieTales: An Easter Carol” DVD, Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and an angel named Hope show Uncle Nezzer what Easter is really about. The full movie will be broadcast on the Gospel Music Channel on April 11.

The announcement yesterday that CBS cancelled the soap opera after airing over seventy years of shows wasn’t a surprise but it certainly is a watershed moment in pop culture. Gone are the days of marketing drama in the afternoon to presumably bored, idle housewives. Instead, soaps like “Guiding Light” have been replaced by self-help and…

We all know that sustainability is a serious issue, but the documentary “They Killed Sister Dorothy” reminds us that it is deadly serious. A Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur nun from Dayton, OH, Dorothy Stang spent 30 years working to help the poor and the powerless in the Brazilian Amazon, dedicating herself more recently…

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