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Monthly Web Picks
BY Brother John Raymond
June 17-23, 2001 Issue 
Since we've discussed pornography this month, here are some recommended sites that encourage a healthy and moral understanding of human sexuality: E “The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education within the Family,” put out by the Pontifical Council for the Family in 1995, can... READ MORE
Who Stole My Web Site?
BY Brother John Raymond Unguarded Web addresses are vulnerable to "domain theft"
June 17-23, 2001 Issue
Maintaining an online Catholic directory can be challenging.
Sites move. Dead links have to be removed. Newly submitted links need to be reviewed before being added to the database.
Given all the maintenance and attention it takes to keep the monksofadoration.org directory upto-date, I wasn't... READ MORE
Weekly Videos
BY John Prizer
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KEYWORDS: Arts
June 10-16, 2001 Issue
The Grand Illusion (1937)
This Vatican top 45 film explores the relationship of two aristocrats who wind up on opposite sides of the trenches during World War I. A pair of French aviators, the upper-class Capt. de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and the middle-class Lt. Marechal (Jean Gabin), are shot... READ MORE
Pearl Harbor Buzz Bomb
BY John Prizer
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KEYWORDS: Arts Shallow story and characters sink the film, but a blinding marketing blitz is selling a lot of tickets
June 10-16, 2001 Issue
In the 1970s George Lucas (Star Wars) and Steven Spielberg (Jaws) put event films onto our national cultural agenda and permanently changed the way Hollywood does business.
At their best (Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, one of the Vatican's top 45 movies), event films help... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
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KEYWORDS: Arts
June 10-16, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
JUNE, VARIOUS DATES
The Richard Tucker Silver Anniversary Gala
PBS; check local listings
This special celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Richard Tucker Foundation, which supports young opera singers. Guest performers include the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Julius Rudel... READ MORE
Weekly Videos
BY John Prizer
June 3-9, 2001 Issue
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (1999)
What should a Christian do when confronted with a government of great evil? Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship) was a Lutheran pastor and theologian who wrestled with how to remain true to his non-violent, pacifist ideals while living under Hitler's... READ MORE
Summer Sleepers
BY John Prizer Better than the blockbusters, but without the hype
June 3-9, 2001 Issue
The summer movie season is now upon us. How can you tell?
By Hollywood's success in turning it into a cultural event in which we have to participate if we don't want to feel left out.
We're constantly being bombarded with attention-grabbing TV commercials and newspaper publicity for each week's... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
SUNDAY, MAY 27
Bookmark: The Grunt Padre
EWTN, 9:30 a.m.
Father Daniel Mode discusses The Grunt Padre, his inspiring biography of Catholic hero Father Vincent Capodanno, a Navy chaplain (b. 1929) who received the Medal of Honor posthumously. In South Vietnam on Sept. 4, 1967, he... READ MORE
Weekly Videos
BY John Prizer
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
The House of Mirth (2000)
America has always been fueled by social ambition and the desire for wealth. Early 20th-century novelist Edith Wharton focused on the difficulties of upper-class women in balancing those goals with a personal moral code. Her books detail how society often punished these... READ MORE
Armenia, Armenia, God Shed His Grace on Thee
BY John M. Grondelski The British Library showcases the Bethlehem of European Christianity
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
More than a decade before Constantine issued his Edict of Milan, extending toleration for the first time to Christianity in the Roman Empire, King Trdat II was baptized by St. Gregory the Illuminator, bringing Christianity to his small country.
That country was Armenia.
Pope John Paul II will be... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
DAILY
Sports Center ESPN; check listings for times
Hear all the latest news and game highlights from the major U.S. sports, along with expert commentary and entertaining banter.
VARIOUS DATES
Weekend Explorer PBS; check local listings for time
Debuting this month, this 13-episode... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
Life and Nothing More…(1992)
Natural disasters have a far different effect on Third World nations than on Europe or America. Immediate relief can be slow in coming, and the region may be crippled for generations.
More than 50,000 people died in the 1990 earthquake in Northern Iran. The event... READ MORE
A Pipe, a Pint ó and Chesterton
BY Daria Sockey A one-man stage show brings the apologist to life
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
Gilbert Keith Chesterton last visited the United States in 1930, six years before his death.
He's back.
The influential English essayist, poet and novelist comes to life, his wit and wisdom intact, in “An Evening With G.K. Chesterton” — thanks to the acting and impersonating abilities of Minnesota... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
Truman (1995)
American politics is sustained by a populist mythology, and occasionally a public figure of humble origins arises to justify these hopes.
The Emmy-winning Truman, a cable-TV movie based on David McCullough's book, presents our 33rd President as a flawed, uncertain everyman who grows... READ MORE
Everywoman of the Self-Involved Age
BY John Prizer
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
Sometimes hit movies are more than just crowd-pleasing entertainment.
They strike a nerve in our collective unconscious, and their success tells us something about the direction of contemporary culture.
Everyone is talking about Bridget Jones's Diary. The New York Times’ top political commentator,... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Dan Engler All times Eastern
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
MONDAY, MAY 7
American Writers
C-SPAN, 9 a.m.
This installment harks back to mid-19th-century America as it analyzes the thoughts of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau on nature and mankind. To be rebroadcast Friday, May 11, at 8 p.m.
MONDAY, MAY 7
Pyramids
Discovery, 9 p.m.
This hour-long... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
Yi Yi(2000)
The current blossoming of Chinese cinema reveals a culture circumscribed by family ties in a manner not seen in most of the West for more than a century. Yi Yi begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral.
The intervening story centers around an upper-middle class Taiwanese family... READ MORE
Second-Hand Harvest, First-Rate Film
BY John Prizer French documentary The Gleaners and I checks consumerism
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
Thirty or forty years ago the release of an artistically challenging French film was a major cultural event.
New Wave classics like Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows were widely reviewed and distributed in America, and their meaning was the subject of countless... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler All times Eastern
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
SUNDAY, APR. 29
Putting People First
EWTN, 8 p.m.
Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute in Front Royal, Va., the courageous scholar who exposed Red China's forced-abortion program, uses facts to prove “over-population” is a myth. He offers remedies for today's loss of love for... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Christianity was once big box office. Back then Hollywood championed simple faith and the power of miracles that come from God. The Oscar-winning The Song of Bernadette , based on Franz Werfel's novel, is a neglected masterwork of that era. Director Henry King (The... READ MORE
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