Edmond Dantès

At the recent MTV Video Music Awards, some singer paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton with a performance of “I Will Always Love You.”

Although I love all the Rocky movies—well, the first five, anyway—I don’t have a single one of them.

Wonder Woman, starring Lynda Carter, made its Philippine television debut in 1975.

We love to think of ourselves as good people.

Barely two weeks ago, Taylor Swift faced another spectacular round of public condemnation.

Somewhere along the way, modern Christianity has acquired a very strange God.

Thirty years ago, DC published one of those rare superhero stories that almost immediately ceased to feel like merely another comic book.

Illustrated by the author. © Edmond Dantès.

Few relationships in religious history are as intimate, as difficult, or—by now—as tiresome as that between Judaism and Christianity.

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There is a particular kind of embarrassment that comes from watching someone try very hard to appear effortless.

I’ll get you!

When I finished high school, I had no clear idea of what I wanted to study in college.

I have ridden almost every bandwagon in pop music.

I was craving a lollipop the other day, so I checked what I had left.

Arroz caldo is the Filipino version of a comforting chicken-and-rice porridge: rice cooked slowly with chicken, ginger, garlic, and patis (fish sauce) until the grains soften and the broth becomes thick and creamy.

Criterion has opened a Canadian outpost inside → Cinema Cellar in Toronto—a “permanent” Criterion store rather than the occasional pop-up or travelling closet . . . © Criterion.

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ST.JOHN’S, NL—The ’Ber Months begin—and if you’re Filipino, glōria in excelsīs!

It’s been years—27, to be exact—since I’ve drawn with any regularity, so I wasn’t entirely sure what would happen when pencil met paper again.

I bought Madonna’s new album, Confessions II, last week because optimism is a condition from which I have never fully recovered.

A Love Story of Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati by EDMOND DANTÈS © OSV News/Catholic Press Photo.

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Those annoying Funko Pops may be a relic of 2021, but thanks to a Shopper’s Drug Mart gift card I scored for my birthday, I decided to officially get on the Michael bandwagon by picking this up from the not-so-bargain bin: Critics (that is, Left-wing main…

Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, and this T-shirt shirt feels incredibly timely: It serves as a constant reminder of my place in God's eyes: a lost sheep, found and saved by the Good Shepherd, Jesus.

I feel truly blessed that my birthday falls during such a holy time of year, always coinciding with Lent, Easter, and Passover.

Right on cue for the Jewish Səfîrat Hā‘ômer (Counting of the Omer)—that grueling 49-day marathon between Passover and Shāvū‘ōṯ (or Pentecost for us Christians)—the Criterion Collection has finally bestowed upon us Monty Python’s Life of Brian on Blu-ray.