So many little customs in our world today came from the Catholic Church – and we just don’t know it! It’s a common custom around the world that when a person near you sneezes, you respond by saying “God, bless you!” When you think about it, that might seem...
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos died last month at the age of 88. Towards the end of his life he was a controversial figure for his handling of the Church’s sex abuse crisis and for some missteps in his work to regularize SSPX. But as a pastor in Colombia he...
So maybe you were bored one night and decided to watch Ancient Aliens or another one of these documentaries about extra-terrestrials. A lot of their claims are just silly, but maybe you perked up when you saw them claim that medieval Catholic art – including paintings of Jesus and Mary – depict...
This is crazy! FOCUS missionary Ethan Stueve recently tweeted about an amazing story: in the 1970s there used to be a humanities program at the University of Kansas that got shut down because too many of its students were converting to Catholicism. Really. Here’s the story: Three professors, Dr....
Happy feast of St. George! St. George has been the patron of England for centuries, and you can find beautiful St. George iconography there as a result. But not every artistic attempt is the same! A great Twitter account called Medieval Graffiti from the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey organization decided...
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