Catholic Glee
There is a quote - attributed to James Joyce but whose citation I simply cannot find in any text - that "Catholic means 'here comes everybody.'" Whether Joyce said it this clearly or if it is sort of a hybrid phrase (the words "here comes everybody" occur several time in Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ) matters little: it is an apt phrase capturing well the plurality of voices that combine to give "Glory to God in the Highest" through the celebration of the Eucharist. To my mind, one of the better instances of a "Catholic" show is FOX's Glee . Set in Ohio, it is the story of "New Directions," a high school glee club. This may strike some as strange: back in December, TIME magazine writer Nancy Gibbs penned a nice piece entitled " The Gospel of Glee: Is it Anti-Christian ". Her article was written in response to a Christian youth minister who thought the show was, indeed, anti-Christian. Gibbs writes: ...