February 22, 2017
by Tyler Blanski
Hollywood’s brush tends to paint the Vatican in colors dark and foreboding, a lavishly decorated place of simony and secret sexual sins. The papal throne is made to look smug and malevolent, even diabolical. Catholic priests are either buffoons or sex-crazed loonies. The laity are gullible, superstitious, or secretly Protestant. The HBO limited series The Young [...]
April 8, 2010
by Joseph Susanka
In spite of (and, perhaps, at least a little because of) the best efforts of countless individuals and organizations, the visual mediums of TV and film continue to exert a disproportionate amount of influence on American Society. Which is why this sort of post from First Things' Wesley J. Smith regarding HBO's upcoming film on [...]