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They give critics a chance to shine: (A.O. Scott in the NYtimes) "The Da Vinci Code" is one of the few screen versions of a book that may take longer to watch than to read. (Curiously enough, Mr. Howard accomplished a similar feat with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" a few years back.) To their…

There’s a podcast thingy of an interview I did with Charley Collins of Vatican Radio on Mary Magdalene. Today, from 5-6 PM, I’ll be interviewed by Paul Clemens on WLCR, the Catholic radio stastion in Louisville. No internet listening possible, but if you’re in the area, tune in!

There was another bishop appointed yesterday – Bishop Sartain of LIttle Rock, moved to Joliet. Dependably, American Papist wraps up the links and commentary (and note that I’ve moved AP into the "Holy Blogs of Obligation" list. He’s keeping up with the daily news faithfully and intelligently, and deserves regular visits!

Rotten Tomatoes keeps score – it’s at 0% now, with 5 reviews in. MegaCritics also collates reviews. There cumulative is higher at this point because they include a rave from the NYPost I have one more post on this I will try to pull together this afternoon, and then…aside from anything startling or interesting, I…

This is kind of interesting – we’ve blogged about the background before – the Quebecois habit of using the names of religious articles as swear words. Now, the Archdiocese of Montreal is using that habit to make a point: From Macleans: Montreal’s Catholic churches are trying to take back the tabernacle and the chalice, reminding…

Like Peter at the beginning of his journey with Jesus, “we too want God to transform the world right away, “ but it was the Teacher himself who showed the first amongst the apostles and all Christians “that the path to the heart’s transformation”. The figure of Peter and the exacting law of following Christ…

From England: Two thirds of Britons who have read Dan Brown’s thriller believe that Jesus fathered a child with Mary Magdalene, a claim rejected as baseless by historians and Bible scholars. Those who have read it are also four times as likely to think that the conservative Roman Catholic organisation Opus Dei, whose members include…

Harry Knowles at Aint-it-Cool News reports that he, as an internet scribe, was not allowed into a screening of DVC last night: (language alert for the rest of the link.) I was invited to a late screening on Thursday night for this film, but Thursday night happens to be the birthday party of a dear…

In what I heard about the movie – information that I have never really parsed in detail publicly because I was unsure of the relationship of what I heard to any final shooting script or cut, but that sounded and read authentically – the final scene in DVC was radically different from the book’s ending.…

I closed comments and was off to Cleveland before I could post on the president’s immigration speech and reaction. I heard an interesting discussion of it yesterday on Diane Rehm, and for the life of me this is what I can’t figure out – the political alliances on this one. It is just the strangest…
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