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It looks like Hollywood has rediscovered the Christian faith! At least as a subject for making movies. The newest one about to hit theaters (March 11th) is The Young Messiah, a film about the childhood of Jesus based on a novel by Anne Rice called Christ the Lord: Out of...
The city of Selçuk, Turkey, famous for its closeness to the site of the ancient city of Ephesus, has announced plans to build a gigantic statue of Mary similar to the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Tradition says Mary finished her earthy life in Ephesus with the...
When you think about abortion in the United States, you probably think of the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade. But abortion had been a problem for long before then. The laws Roe v. Wade struck down had been enacted in the 19th century after the discovery...
Since the 1st century, there have been reports of miraculous apparitions and visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While many stories are forgotten or left unverified, a select few have been approved by the Church. Note that private revelation, like messages from Marian apparitions, are not a part of the...
When you think of beautiful buildings in Washington D.C., you might think of the National Mall, the Episcopalian National Cathedral, or even the great Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. But after you read this, you might think of a church you previously didn’t even...
Why do so many millennials become Catholic? It’s not because they’re hipper than thou, and it’s certainly not because they’re holier. Michelangelo’s writhing, unfinished statues of slaves, struggling in their prisons of stone, are a picture of millennial converts to Catholicism: broken and banished from...
