Here are today's dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.
1.
For Greater Glory:
Epic and timely.
Synopsis: In the late 1920's, a ragtag group of Mexicans take up resist their government's crackdown on religious liberty -- a crackdown, in this instance, directed at the Catholic Church.
Enrique Gorostieta Velarde (Andy Garcia), a retired general...
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Here's today's dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.
It's ironic that
For Greater Glory, a film about Mexico's little-discussed
Cristero War, an early 20th century uprising against government intrusion on religious liberty, is set to open in the U.S. next Friday (June 1). Coming less than two weeks after
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