Anthony Sacramone

Tomorrow morning, on the Catholic Channel’s Seize the Day program with host Gus Lloyd, Sylvester Stallone will be talking about Rambo IV —and perhaps his own faith. His segment is scheduled for 9 a.m. The Catholic Channel is on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 159. Even if you don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . is sending refugees to Florida , which no doubt will make that state even more conservative. Ah the law of unintended consequences . . . (Those Joseph Kennedy/Citgo commercials —they probably don’t run in Miami, right? I mean, because of the climate and all.) . . . . Continue Reading »

So Planned Parenthood has acquired three clergy persons to bless the abortion wing attached to a hospital in Schenectady, New York. Now, finding three clerks who would do such a thing couldn’t be that difficult. Think virtually any mainline Protestant denomination, or three part-timers at a . . . . Continue Reading »

Best Picture There Will Be Blood Juno No Country for Old Men Atonement Michael Clayton No surprises: Michael Clayton managed to massage every cliche of the law-firm-gone-bad genre into yet another mediocrity. As for Atonement . . . well, read this . Nice to see Juno in the mix. Ellen Goodman must . . . . Continue Reading »

Haven’t we seen this movie? You remember, that cheesy bit of reality TV directed by James Cameron about the supposed tomb of Jesus? Wasn’t that already voted off the island or dismissed with a sniff like a karaoke barfly on American Idol ? But it’s back—yes, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Sylvester Stallone’s movie work of late (such as it is) has featured more religion, perhaps because of his own return to the Church . Here , at Ain’t It Cool News, he gives a funny and self-deprecating interview, as well as some insight as to why al-Qaeda will not be an enemy that any . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . is Luther turning over in his grave . . . Well, what difference does doctrine make to the ELCA these days? It’s already in full communion with TEC, which starting taking a blue pencil to the Thirty-nine Articles before the confession’s ink was dry, and with the Reformed Church in . . . . Continue Reading »

Funny you should mention Capablanca , Steve. I’m almost finished with Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union , which focuses on the murder of a chess prodigy (who may also be the Messiah; it helps to have a Plan B should the board game thingee not work out). . . . . Continue Reading »

He was 64 . If you were a chess obsessive, especially a kid chess obsessive like me, you replicated with robotic obedience Fischer’s wild championship games with Boris Spassky back in 1972. Fischer defeated the Russian champion after a series of famously goofy delays in which Fischer . . . . Continue Reading »

Not that bin Laden—his son, Omar, one of the terrorist’s nineteen children. He wants to dispel the myth that all Muslims are terrorists and become “an ambassador for peace .” Fine. Step one: Cough up the old man. We’re not buying that he doesn’t have email: . . . . Continue Reading »