Review by Leonard Freeman“I first tasted semen when I was seven years old” is an opening line that tells you Calvary will not be a family film.Fr. James (Brendan Gleeson) hears these words through the grate of the confessional, telling a story of degradation and hurt, bitterness and revenge. For years as a young boy, the speaker tells him, he was raped by the priests, and now … [Read more...] about A Priest Forever
Archives for September 10, 2014
Church Music after Vatican II
Review by Daniel H. Martins Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of what is arguably the single most influential event in Christian history since the Reformation: the Second Vatican Council. Far from being absorbed into some larger whole, Vatican II continues to cast a lengthening shadow, offering itself as the most plausible lens through which to interpret … [Read more...] about Church Music after Vatican II