In September of 1774, the men who would become the Founding Fathers of the United States of America met in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress, a series of meetings during the American Revolutionary War of representatives from the thirteen colonies. On the first day, a very practical question arose:...
Although various primitive photographic techniques have existed for centuries, modern photography got its start in early-19th century Europe. The first methods required exposure times of hours, or even days, but within a few decades inventors had got that time down to minutes and seconds. Right in the middle of the...
While Peter was fleeing from his persecutors on the outskirts of Rome around the year A.D. 65, Jesus suddenly appeared to him. “Lord, where are you going?” Peter asked. Jesus’ answer: “I am going to Rome to be crucified again.” Realizing that Christ was speaking of Peter, the Apostle...
Below is one of the most extraordinary videos you’ll see. In the early 1890s, William Kennedy Dickson created one of the world’s first motion picture cameras in Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, NY. Keen to show of the magical new technology, he traveled the world taking...
It is a dogma of the Catholic faith that the Blessed Virgin Mary was not only a virgin when she conceived and bore Jesus but that she remained a virgin ever after. Most Protestant Christians today deny this – but do they know that many of their early leaders believed it?...
St. Padre Pio is considered one of the great saints of the 20th century, and one of the Church’s greatest mystics. Stigmata, bi-location, soul-reading, demon-fighting, and other miraculous phenomenon have all been attributed to the Franciscan. Below is a fascinating documentary about the great saint. At just under an...
