Catholic Theater

A new St. Louis based theater company will open its first season with five overtly Christian shows beginning on September 21^st and 22^nd at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center in Shrewsbury. The first is a play by English author GK Chesterton. Written at the behest of his friend George Bernard Shaw, The Surprise is a kind of Romantic Fairy Tale — a story which answers the question "What do people want in life, and how can they get it?" Recommended for teens on up. Tickets ($15) are available through MetroTix and directly from The Theater of the Word at 314-840-WORD. Showtime is 8 p.m. both nights. For your viewing pleasure, here is a promotional video for Theater of the Word.

Credo board member Tom Leith is playing the part of the King of Fontarabia in The Surprise. All the important parts are cast with professionals though.

The following weekend, actors Chuck Chalberg and Kevin O'Brien will be joined by the president of the American Chesterton Society and host of EWTN's program G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense, Dale Ahlquist, to present a show Chumming with Chesterton and Bumming with Belloc. Same place, time, and price.

And speaking of, we should plug the St. Louis Chesterton Society. Yes, there is a local Chesterton Society, which has been meeting for three years. If you love to read, and especially to read Chesterton and the other great Catholic and Merely Christian writers of the 20^th centruy, check out their web site and get involved.

A Toxic Mixture of Catholic Apathy and Ignorance

Next Forum Sunday September 16, 2007

Credo is proud to welcome back to our lectern Wm. A. Borst Ph.D. Dr. Borst has been writing the monthly newsletter for the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation since 2003. He also has a monthly column that appears in the St. Louis Review. In 1986 he became involved in the Prolife movement and is a board member of Birthright St. Louis. Dr. Borst has also held several offices in the St. Louis Archdiocesan Prolife Committee and is currently the Respect Life Chairman at Annunziata Parish. His talk will focus on the causes of apathy within the Catholic Church with a special emphasis on the failure of the Catholic University to properly prepare its students in the wisdom and defense of the Faith.

Dr. Borst has had a varied and interesting professional life. Called by some "The George Will of St. Louis" for his switch hitting ability to converse and write on a high level on both current affairs and baseball.

He has had over 30 experiences in talk radio and instruction at the college level.
Books he has authored include Liberalism: Fatal Consequences, and The Scorpion and the Frog: a Natural Conspiracy. Taken in tandem the two volumes present a concise and profoundly accurate picture of the many aspects and forces that have infected America with its notorious culture war. Signed copies be available for purchase at the forum.

Join us for a delicious sit down Dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel 7750 Carondelet in Clayton 6:00 p.m. Sunday September 16, 2007. Cost $20.00 per person. Free inside parking at the 7777 Bonhomme Garage. Use the Orange Level Bridge to the hotel.

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