Press Conference Called in Front of the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center Tomorrow 1:00pm March 8, 2012 – Earlier today news broke that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, earlier this year, decided that because the new Executive Director of Francis House Center, Reverend Faith Whitmore, supported LGBT marriage rights and the organization, Planned Parenthood, they would abruptly pull their yearly donation to the homeless organization. While Rev. Whitmore was eloquent in an interview with the Sacramento Bee and News 10 of how she took the news when she received the letter from the Diocese, members of the LGBT community, the faith-based community and homeless rights advocates were qu

 The sexual scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church were already well known in the United States when Lambda Players premiered Matthew Burlingame’s Paperclip Messiah  in 2002. Eight years later they have grown into a worldwide scandal, making the current production of "Paperclip Messiah" as timely as ever. The local bishop has assigned Father Patrick to run a modern-day Catholic Parrish after the former head priest was arrested and is on trial for molestations. Father Patrick is working hard to keep the parish functioning and fending off intrusions from the press. A former parishioner applies for the job as a live-in janitor. He is a handsome young man named Joel who had been livin

Angels and Demons Directed by Ron Howard By Tony Sheppard Capitol Weekly “Angels and Demons” is the second movie made from a Dan Brown book featuring the character of Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks). The other is “The Da Vinci Code” and while the “Angels and Demons” novel appeared first, the films are being presented to audiences in the reverse order, with the implication in the film that the stories are sequentially switched. This works in the sense that the events of the two novels are independent of each other and the sequence is unimportant, so there’s no real point in selling the second film as a prequel just to preserve the original publication order. But it also presents some problems