The Passion Of the Lion?

Will It Be Faithful?
The question everyone wants answered is whether the movie retains the Christian elements found in the book.
“Is this faithful to the book in its story and imagery?” asked Quam. “Absolutely,” he responded. “The Christian story… Read More

Invasion of the Podcasters

When Darren Cary, in Palestine, Texas, tires of listening to music at work, he uses his computer to download The Catholic Cast, a program several states away in Cincinnati, Ohio. The program isn’t broadcast by any of the secular or… Read More

Portraying the Pope: An Interview with Actor Jeremy Stanbary

26-year-old Jeremy Stanbary is the founder and principal actor for Minneapolis-Epiphany Studio Productions, a theater troupe devoted to performing Catholic dramas. With the recent passing of Pope John Paul II, Stanbary has been kept busy performing his one-man play on… Read More

Sash Wars V: The Archbishop Strikes Back

Four years ago, St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn opened the cathedral’s doors to open homosexuals who desired to change Church teaching. Every Pentecost since, members of the Rainbow Sash Alliance have donned multicolored sashes for Sunday Mass and were given… Read More

Why We Don’t Starve Humans

Dr. Chris Kahlenborn is an internist in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He serves as president of the Polycarp Research Institute (www.polycarp.org). He spoke with Tim Drake about the dynamics and ethics of denying a person nutrition and hydration.
What happens to a… Read More

Seven Signs of Hope for the Church

It’s easy to get bogged down by all the bad news in the Church — the priestly sexual abuse scandals, the dissension and division, the crisis on Catholic college campuses, cafeteria Catholicism. Yet, such a view is quite myopic, for… Read More

Three Dead, One Living

At this point in Amy Richards’s life, she’s killed more children than she’s brought into the world. She’s so proud of that fact that she’s not only shared her decision with the New York Times and its readers, but she… Read More

Free Inside and Out: Mark Belnick in Person

Mark Belnick has his freedom back. In mid-July, two years after his indictment, Belnick, the former general counsel for Tyco International, was acquitted on 14 counts of felony and misdemeanor financial misconduct. A former devout Jew, Belnick converted to the… Read More

New Program Offers Adult Faith-Formation Online

Is online education an appropriate forum for adult faith formation? The folks at the Steubenville, Ohio-based Pastoral Solutions Institute seem to think so. “We need new ways to reach adult Catholics,” said Gregory Popcak, president of the initiative — Heart,… Read More

Jim Caviezel: How The Passion Changed Him

Jim Caviezel was already a devout Catholic when he got the role of Christ in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. But after acting out Christ’s harrowing death in the movie, scheduled to be released Ash Wednesday, he says… Read More

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