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TV Picks May 4-10, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
May 4-10, 2008 Issue 
SUNDAYS-FRIDAYS, 7
a.m.
Morning Prayers
FAMILYLAND TV The
Morning Offering is “of fundamental importance in the life of the faithful,”
wrote Pope John Paul II. Tune in for this powerful prayer and others, too.
SUNDAY, 9 p.m.
Greensburg
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
This new hour-long special visits... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - pick
Lars and the Real Girl (2007) - pick
The Golden Compass (2007) - pass
Not long ago, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano
published commentary on the 2008 Academy Awards that strikingly coincided with
my own analysis on this page a few weeks... READ MORE
A Saint Made Music. May His Music Make Saints.
BY Joseph Pronechen
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
From his home base in Los Angeles, Grammy-winning musician
Ray Herrmann has been making memorable music for more than two decades. He has
performed alongside, and recorded with, such top acts as LeAnn Rimes, Johnny
Mathis and George Benson.
He has played on Leno, Letterman and numerous other... READ MORE
TV Picks April 26 - May 3, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
DAILY, noon
Family Rosary and
Mass
FAMILYLAND TV
“After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I
love as much as the Rosary,” the Blessed Mother told Dominican Father Blessed
Alan de la Roche in 1460. Tune in to Family Rosary with Sacred... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Juno (2007) - Pick
The Water Horse
(2007) - Pick
“Dealing with things way beyond my maturity level” is the
mature if bitter self-reflection from the title character in Juno (new this
week on DVD).
But maturity and immaturity can be combined in unexpected
ways, like a hulking teenager with... READ MORE
The Quill and the Mouse
BY Eric Scheske Literature in the Blogosphere
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor.
Few things energize American Catholic writers more than that literary
quaternary. English Catholic writers can have Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien and
Malcolm Muggeridge. Heck, they can even have the renegade Graham Greene.
American... READ MORE
TV Picks April 20-26, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY, 6 a.m.
History’s Lost &
Found
HISTORY CHANNEL
“Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof,”
reads the inscription on the Liberty Bell, citing Leviticus 25:10. Cast in 1751
and rung in 1776 for the Declaration of Independence, the bell... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
Pope Benedict XVI knew firsthand the terrors of Nazism: As a
teenager he was forced to enroll in the Hitler Youth movement. Here are three
DVD picks from the Register archive to which he would likely give his own
thumbs-up.
One of the best and most inspiring films of the decade,... READ MORE
When the Angels Sing Along
BY FATHER ANDREAS KRAMARZ, LC The Pope’s Favorite Pieces of Music
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
Pope Benedict loves music. Pope Benedict loves Mozart. But
what of Mozart does Pope Benedict love most?
A little while ago, his brother Msgr. Georg Ratzinger disclosed
this secret in an interview to a Swiss Press Agency and now we know that there
are two pieces that Benedict XVI especially enjoys:... READ MORE
TV Picks April 13-19, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
VARIOUS
Best of Familyland
FAMILYLAND TV On
Sundays and Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. and Mondays at 1:30 p.m., speakers explain
and defend Catholic truths and offer pro-family wisdom.
VARIOUS
Critter Gitters
FAMILYLAND TV At
4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 10:30... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (2006) - Pick
BBC Natural History Collection (2008) – Pick
If you see only one slow-moving, foreign documentary about a
monastery screened last year for U.S. audiences — one featuring an elderly,
hard-working man with an imposing white beard and an... READ MORE
God Is Her Songwriting Partner
BY Joseph Pronechen
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
Not once during the 13 years she studied piano in Fort
Myers, Fla., did she think of composing a song — but when a friend suggested
she try, Gabriela Martinez wrote a whole CD’s worth.
That led to the recording of “Light Unto the World,” a set
of original religious songs available at... READ MORE
TV Picks April 6-12, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY, 1 p.m.
Great Performances at
the Met: Romeo et Juliette
PBS French tenor
Robert Alagna and Russian soprano Anna Netrebko have the title roles in this
December 2007 staging of Charles Gounod’s 1867 operatic adaptation of
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. Sung in French... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
The Kite Runner (2007) - Pick
Atonement(2001) - Pass
Recently released on DVD, The Kite Runner and Atonement
present striking thematic similarities. Both are based on admired novels, and
tell a generation-spanning story involving children, war, shame, guilt and
efforts to make amends.
In both... READ MORE
Singer, Publisher, Community Organizer
BY Eddie O’Neill
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
Twenty years after she learned to play the guitar, Susan
Bailey underwent a conversion experience and felt inspired to compose Christian
songs.
Soon after, she was asked to sing at the funeral of a close
family friend who had died of AIDS. Bailey composed a song for her friend and,
at the funeral,... READ MORE
TV Picks March 30-April 5, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY, all day
EWTN’s Divine Mercy
Sunday
EWTN Today’s
shows are the film Faustina (1:30 a.m.), A Time for Mercy (5 a.m.), Generations
Unite in Prayer: The Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Song (6:30 a.m.), Divine Mercy
Preview Show (noon), Solemn Mass and Celebration of Divine... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? (2008) - Pick
The Face [Jesus in Art] (2001) - Pick
Picturing Mary (2007) - Pick
In this era of the New Atheism, Ignatius Press’s new
documentary DVD Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? offers a timely, helpful
crash course in the apologetics of Easter.... READ MORE
It’s a Political Jungle in There
BY ERIC SCHESKE
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
If it’s a topic of conversation, you’ll find a blog
dedicated to it. Weather, food, religion, psychology, literature, baseball,
basketball, colleges, movies, travel. Whatever it is, someone is blogging about
it.
But what topic gets the most blog play? What sphere of
activity attracts the most... READ MORE
TV Picks March 23-29, 2008
BY Daniel J. Engler
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
All Times Eastern
SUNDAY, all day
Easter Sunday
EWTN “He has
risen; he is not here,” the angel told the holy women. From 3 a.m. (The Great
Mr. Handel) to 10 p.m. (Triumphant Hour), look for programming that celebrates
the First Easter. Pope Benedict XVI’s Solemn Mass is live at 5:30... READ MORE
DVD Picks & Passes
BY Steven D. Greydanus
March 16-22, 2008 Issue
Enchanted (2007) - Pass
Bee Movie (2007) - Pass
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007) - Pass
As I’ve recently noted more than once on this page, 2007 was
a particularly weak year for family films. Already 2008 is shaping up to be a
better year, between the scary-but-good Spiderwick Chronicles... READ MORE
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