Pope Francis has impressed Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his displays of compassion and kindness for the less fortunate. Many will recall that on Holy Thursday in 2013 Francis visited an Italian youth prison, where he said Mass and washed the feet of 12 young inmates, including a Muslim boy and two girls, one a Catholic and the other a Muslim. It was the first time … [Read more...]
Gutsy, shattering ‘Timbuktu’ a profile in courage
As South Florida continues to screen the holdovers from the 2014 Oscar season, it’s clear that the most courageous movie of this past year isn’t Clint Eastwood’s intense but airbrushed glorification of an American sniper, nor Morten Tyldum’s careful, formula-hampered biopic of Alan Turing, nor even Ava DuVernay’s vital event movie, Selma. Nope: The past year’s distinction in … [Read more...]