The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway right now, which means the annual ritual is upon us: journalists stationed in the Grand Théâtre Lumière with stopwatches, clocking the exact minute-and-second duration of every standing ovation.

And typically, at this fest, the ovations are long. Like, really long. Comically long. The record (according to Deadline) is 22 minutes for _Pan's…

St. Irenaeus mentions what the Apostle John exclaimed when he ran into the gnostic heretic Cerinthus. He also recalls what his Bishop St. Polycarp, the beloved and holy martyr and disciple of the holy Apostles, said to the heretic Marcion when he saw him in person. All emphasis will be mine.

Chapter 3 A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, in the various churches, a perpetual…