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...narrow path [May 2]. She reminds us that the church family is not a democracy and that it is not her job to be our friend. She is our mother - consistent, a little old-fashioned - but she instructs us and gives us shelter on the road to heaven. Catherine Baron Morrisville, North Carolina, U.S. The U.S. has become a moral waste-land in no small measure because we Catholics have done a bad job of forming our conscience and then living in accordance with it. Abortion, embryonic-stem-cell research, pornography and morally offensive "alternative" lifestyles would not have become...
...suddenly and violently removed from. Then, instead of allowing the ecstatic exclamation point of a simple, hugging resolution to Sandro's maritime ordeal, he introduces question marks. Can children who have gone through hell, like Radu and Alina, be expected to act like angels when they've reached the heaven of a welcoming country and embracing family? Will Sandro be able to understand that everyone has his reasons, even someone whom he trusted and soon betrays...
...guide us on the narrow path. She reminds us the church family is not a democracy and that it is not her job to be our friend. She is our mother--consistent, a little old-fashioned--and she instructs us and gives us shelter on the road to heaven...
...cliche'?" Van Sant and Pitt aren't sorry. They embrace the standard version of the pop star as lost boy, doomed poet; Blake is a rock Rimbaud. At the end he dies (as he is obliged to do) and ascends the wall of his room into rock-and-roll heaven - which makes Last Days something like the 43rd ghost movie in Cannes' first few days...
...reactions of sorrow and emptiness caused by the Pope's death. True believers should realize that his suffering has ended and he is home now with God. I understand a certain degree of nostalgia, but for people to focus collectively on the worldly death rather than the rewards of heaven tells me that their faith is earthbound. That is an emotional negation of Jesus Christ's spiritual promise of eternal life. True believers should be cheering John Paul's departure and longing for the day they meet again with him in God's very own realm. Humberto Sarkis Beverly Hills...