Bella

There's a great new film out called "Bella". I saw it last weekend and absolutely loved it. Being an independent film (winning the People's Choice award at the Toronto Film Festival this year) it isn't your typical Hollywood blockbuster.

It is not going to knock your socks off with thrilling action scenes. It won't make your brain work hard to figure out the next twist in the plot line. It might seem slow at times. And it's not a happily ever after flick either. It's a movie about people...about being human.

The characters in this film are absolutely beautiful. The story gives a realistic reflection of the beauty of life, not through fairy tale miracles or dreams come true, but through the joy found at the heart of suffering embraced and a genuine love for one another. It's real. It is pro-life in the most profound sense.

I hope all of you will go and see it if you have the chance. This is a film that deserves to be shared. God bless.

Great Online Bible Resource

Just wanted to share one of my favorite online websites. It is one of my favorites simply because it is the full bible put online and is well organized with a search feature too. It has good comments when appropriate as well.

The link is http://www.drbo.org/ . It is the Douay-Rheims translation of the bible which is basically the Latin Vulgate put into english. That makes the language in it just about as accurate as you can get in english.

Also, this version of the bible includes the entire bible and is not missing books from it like most non-catholic bibles are. There are a lot of great protestant bible websites and online resources out there, but unfortunately they are missing the deutero-canonical books and parts of Esther and Daniel (books that have been included in bibles and regarded by the Christian Church as inspired scripture since Jesus' time. They were only actually totally removed from any bible in the past couple hundred years. This is why many non-catholics are either un-aware that their version of the bible is actually missing original, inspired books or misinformed as to why it is that way.)

Another good bible link is here: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/. It is the New American Bible which is also a good translation but does not have a scripture search feature, which is often handy. Have a great day!

God is Love

Here's an article I wrote for CatholicOutpost.com. It's basically the foundational article for my column there - pretty generic and broad, but I think it might help some peope see the forest through the trees and remind us of what the point of all this stuff is anyway. Click here to read: http://catholicoutpost.com/site.php?view=column_archive.php&writer_id=1&column_id=1