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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Greg Erlandson |Pablo Kay |Ad rem
In the classic western, “Shane,” the hero tells the boy who idolizes him that the gun he carries on his hip is like any other tool. It’s as good or bad as the man who uses it. I feel the same about the 21st century’s version of a sidearm, otherwise known as artificial intelligence. The question yet to be answered is whether the good of AI will outweigh the bad. AI is already part of everyday life.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Heather King |Scott Hahn |Ad rem
If you expect to find solid Catholic teaching in your popular entertainment, you are setting yourself up for bitter disappointment. Between blatant untruths about the faith to grotesque distortions of Catholic facts, entertainment across a wide spectrum has a wretched track record. This is certainly true when it comes to representations of the devil or demonic spirits.
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4 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Mike Cisneros |Ronald Rolheiser |Ad rem
I thought I was a top-of-the-line cinephile, especially when it came to films of the distant past. But a friend of mine taught me I had more to learn. The film my friend insisted I watch may be almost 100 years old, but its story is timeless. Since it is May, and the film’s “star” will be celebrating her feast day at the end of the month, it’s time to pay my friend’s recommendation forward.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Pablo Kay |Paulina Guzik |Ad rem
I am now on my eighth pope. The good news is, I am still younger than the pope. In 1978, we were all excited to have a Polish pope and a man who was a mere youth at 58.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Tom Hoffarth |Kimberley A. Heatherington |Ad rem
After videos of people scraping their keys across certain electric vehicles, the other most popular images on social media these days seem to be those of “street preachers,” either standing in the commons of some institution of higher learning, or on a street corner. The street-corner variety almost always seems to be at night, and in a rough part of town. None of the preachers seem to be Catholic. I have mixed feelings about that.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Carol Glatz |Ad rem
Golf has been a Sunday tradition in my life for a long time. Our pop never held a golf club in his hand to the best of my recollection, but his priest brother, Father John, played once a week for most of his life. When our uncle made his regular Sunday dinner visits to our house, our dad would instruct one of us to find whatever golf tournament was on TV. We were his remote control in those days.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Heather King |Scott Hahn |Ad rem
I will wager that most people reading this have no idea who St. Fiacre was and what he has in common with the Beatles. The whimsical Beatles song, “When I’m 64,” is a projection into a beautiful future with the singer joyfully looking forward to growing old with his true love, where even the simplest pleasures, such as “doing the garden, digging the weeds,” are things devoutly to be wished for.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Ad rem
The spate of religious/biblical films and television series in the post-“Passion of the Christ” world have been a mixed bag of successes, failures, and everything in between. Popular culture that “borrows” from sacred Scripture usually churns out things so pious they are unwatchable, or takes such liberties and “reinterprets” what God has inspired, the writers of such faire could be charged with assault.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Ad rem
We’re in the middle of Lent. We edge ever closer toward the most profound week on the liturgical calendar, capped by the holiest day of the year. There is a lot to think about and a lot to pray over in the remaining Lenten season. So, it is only natural that I’m thinking about a movie series with a computer-animated bear in a winter coat and red hat. I am not going to shoehorn the premise of the “Paddington” movies into a treatise on Christian imagery as it pertains to the passion of Our Lord.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Stefano Rebeggiani |Cindy Wooden |Ad rem
It’s difficult for people today to understand what a monumental cultural impact the film “Gone With the Wind” had on the American imagination. So the scandal the film created when Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler tells Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn,” is also lost in the fog of popular culture’s tenuous memory. A lot of words were not said in films then that are now routine on “family” television shows.
