The bright future

For those who constantly complain about the state of the church, I have a refreshing blog - www.catholicreport.org. Pertinent newsworthy topics from the Catholic world are selected on a daily basis, but with a hopeful slant, always pointing out the new wave of orthodoxy. I especially enjoy the articles from the sixties crowd, the gray hairs that you find at Call to Action events. Their days have come and gone and their obvious regret contrasts widely with the zeal of the youth for orthodoxy - not rebellion. Oh for the day when the colleges can truly be called Catholic again and the chanceries return to timeless devotions instead of "trendy" enneagram seminars.

The Golden Bomb

Thankfully, the movie, the Golden Compass tanked at the box office. How fortunate for those who waited to see what the hullabaloo was about and decided to forego the waste of money. How sad, though, for the youth who were interested in this film, interested enough to buy the novels and receive the noxious brew cooked up by the English atheist Philip Pullman. It was especially disappointing how some in the Catholic school system were reluctant to remove the books for some perceived "discussion value." One wonders whether blatantly racist fare would have received the same treatment.