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Contagion

Contagion

By Fr. Ernest Daly on September 22, 2011

A movie that makes you real­ize how frag­ile life is. When a new, deadly virus breaks in Hong Kong it quickly spreads through­out the world, cre­at­ing tragedy and chaos. This is a fic­tional film, but many dis­ease experts say it does depict a real pos­si­bil­ity. The movie high­lights the plight of one fam­ily which is […]

Written by Fr. Ernest Daly on September 22, 2011 | Related Topics: Reviews | Keywords: Actor, courage, family, hope, Life, love, martyr, Movie, relationships, suffering, tragedy | Leave a response

Sarah’s Key

Sarah’s Key

By Fr. Ernest Daly on August 31, 2011

An extremely beau­ti­ful but extremely sad movie. It tells the story of a lit­tle Jew­ish girl who escapes depor­ta­tion to the Nazi exter­mi­na­tion camps in order to come back and  res­cue her lit­tle brother. The story is told by a woman reporter who dis­cov­ers a strange link to the story of this lit­tle girl. The […]

Written by Fr. Ernest Daly on August 31, 2011 | Related Topics: Reviews | Keywords: Abortion, courage, family, healing, hope, Life, love, marriage, martyr, Movie, prolife, relationships, suffering, suicide, tragedy, vocation, war | Leave a response

Captain America

Captain America

By Fr. Ernest Daly on August 29, 2011

Cap­tain Amer­ica: the First Avenger Good movie about courage and doing the right thing. The hero is an under­dog who is cho­sen for an exper­i­ment by a sci­en­tist who sees great­ness in him: great­ness of heart. The young man’s strength is not anger and revenge but want­ing to stand up against any kind of bullies, […]

Written by Fr. Ernest Daly on August 29, 2011 | Related Topics: Reviews | Keywords: action, bullying, choice, courage, heroism, love, Movie, passion, patriotism, relationships, sacrifice, suffering, tragedy, vocation, war | Leave a response

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

By Fr. Ernest Daly on July 7, 2011

This movie raises some impor­tant ques­tions about sci­ence run amuck. A researcher is obsessed with his gene alter­ing project and also obsessed with find­ing a cure to his dad’s Alzheimer’s. He pushes ahead on his research even after it was shut down by his dra­matic fail­ure. He seems to find the med­ical solu­tion he was […]

Written by Fr. Ernest Daly on July 7, 2011 | Related Topics: Reviews | Keywords: action, Bioethics, Ethics, Movie, sci-fi, Science, Science fiction, tragedy | Leave a response

Charlie St Cloud

Charlie St Cloud

By Fr. Ernest Daly on August 5, 2010

Char­lie St. Cloud is about let­ting go of things that make you sad and make your life hard…

Written by Fr. Ernest Daly on August 5, 2010 | Related Topics: Reviews | Keywords: death, grief, loss, love, Movie, sailing, tragedy, zac efron | Leave a response

One Life to Give

One Life to Give

By Alex Kubik on May 18, 2009

When the news broke last month that the cap­tain of an Amer­i­can cargo ship had been cap­tured by pirates, it is likely that many peo­ple didn’t real­ize how dan­ger­ous and ter­ri­fy­ing that really was.

Written by Alex Kubik on May 18, 2009 | Related Topics: All Lessons, Horror and Tragedy | Keywords: christ, Church, courage, cross, good friday, hope, Life, Movie, Politics, suffering, tragedy, war | Leave a response

An Unexpected Sorrow

An Unexpected Sorrow

By Fr. Ernest Daly on December 12, 2008

Some­times life brings tragedy. Pain and loss can sur­prise us, com­ing out of nowhere. In this les­son we will look at one tragedy that hap­pened this past August. Even though this story is sad, it is a story that can help us.

Written by Fr. Ernest Daly on December 12, 2008 | Related Topics: All Lessons, Horror and Tragedy | Keywords: chile, crash, hope, tragedy | 1 Response

A Deeper Victory: 9/​11 Hero & Olympian

A Deeper Victory: 9/​11 Hero & Olympian

By Genevieve Yep-Pollack on September 8, 2004

Jason Read of the United States men’s row­ing team, had already demon­strated a great con­fi­dence and faith in him­self in the Sep­tem­ber 11th res­cue squad. How­ever, the Olympics chal­lenged him to take a step higher, to a deeper faith and con­fi­dence in God rather than himself.

Written by Genevieve Yep-Pollack on September 8, 2004 | Related Topics: All Lessons, Horror and Tragedy, Issues and Politics, Sports | Keywords: 9/11, hope, Islam, Life, olympics, Politics, prolife, Sports, tragedy, war | Leave a response

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