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Entries from February 1, 2006 - March 1, 2006
Men We Love: Fr. George Calciu
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 in Orthodoxy
[National Review Online, February 14, 2006]
For a feature titled "Men We Love"
In a life blessed by many strong and honorable men, worthy of love, the one I'd like to celebrate here is an 80-year-old priest. In 1948, at the age of 22, Father George Calciu was arrested and held
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Beliefnet Film Awards 2005
Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 in Movie Reviews
Beliefnet Film Awards, 2006
Cinderella Man
What's so inspirational about James J. Braddock, the "Cinderella Man"? Audiences have already given plenty of love
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Curious George
Posted Thursday, February 9, 2006 in Movie Reviews
George, the curious little monkey, had a precarious start: his parents, Margaret and H.A. Rey, bicycled out of Paris just hours before the Germans arrived, with the preliminary watercolors and story text in their backpacks. Margaret, a Bauhaus-trained artist, was a sharp cookie and blazingly direct, capable of blurting to her publisher: “You always wear a hat. Is there something wrong with your head?” (The reply was, “Nothing that a hat can hide.”)
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