Since the dawn of moving pictures on celluloid, filmmakers have been trying to tell “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” recognizing, each in their own way, how universally compelling is the narrative of our salvation accomplished by one Man. Current news has it that American-Australian film actor, producer and director of 2004’s record-breaking The Passion of the [...]
"Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas" — "On the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures." Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, March 26, 2008, Easter Week (Excerpts) Holy Saturday, March 22, 2008, in St. Peter’s Basilica. Easter Vigil in the Holy Night presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The Holy Father blesses the [...]
Jesus fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies, but the most astonishing was His own: "On the third day, I shall rise again" The words of the angels who greeted the holy women outside of Jesus’ tomb tell us all we need to know: not only has He risen from the dead, but He has fulfilled His [...]
Anna Foa. Studies in recent years have been bringing ever more to light the general role of protection that the Church played toward the Jews during the Nazi occupation of Italy, from Florence, with Cardinal Dalla Costa proclaimed Righteous in 2012, to Genoa, with Fr. Francesco Repetto, also Righteous, to Milan with Cardinal Schuster, [...]
We received the following letter from Father Hughes at Christmas and felt it deserved a wider readership, so we decided to publish it here. Brothers Cassian Koenemann, front, Cuthbert Elliott and John McCusker, all monks from St. Louis Abbey, and seminarian Daniel Gill, attend class Feb. 11 at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis. [...]
