In His Rising is Our Hope
In him, who rose from the dead, our hope of resurrection dawned. The sadness of death gives way to the bright promise of immortality. — Preface for Christian Death I Sacred images do not instantly […]
Year: 2016
Film & Music
Music for Easter: A Playlist
This article aims to serve as a follow-up to the Lenten playlist which Catholic World Report ran last month. The same general criteria for selecting works apply here as applied there: no instances of pure […]
The “Homeless Jesus” statue and the New Evangelization
Occasionally an artist emerges who is very much of his time and whose art is yet somehow timeless. One such artist working today has met with wide acclaim, which is all the more surprising given […]
Essay
The Spear that Truly Pierces the Heart
To my mind, there are three great novels published during the last century-and-a-half depicting the Passion of Christ: Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), Lloyd C. Douglas’ The Robe (1942), and Louis […]
Special Report
First Catholic church established in Northern Savonia, Finland
Kuopio is Finland’s eighth largest city and the capital of Northern Savonia, the country’s important eastern region, and on March 19, 2016, the Feast of Saint Joseph, it saw the first Catholic church established in […]
Essay
The Disturbing Fact of the Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the be-all and the end-all of the Christian faith. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, all bishops, priests, and Christian ministers should go home and get […]
Opinion
Breaking the Code
Two years after the Islamic jihadist attack on the World Trade Center, a book appeared which purported to reveal a conspiracy to cover up the truth about a major world religion. According to the book, […]
Interview
Catholic Questions from the Man Who Brought You “Catholic Answers”
Karl Keating is founder and senior fellow at Catholic Answers, one of the nation’s largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. Keating, a lawyer, founded Catholics Answers in 1979 in response to fundamentalist literature […]
Essay
Easter is not a question mark
Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The Tallis Scholars are a marvelous a capella ensemble, but most […]
News
Belgian bishops express “anguish” over Brussels attacks; Pope Francis sends condolences
The bishops of Belgium “share the anguish” of the victims of two terrorist attacks in Brussels today, and have asked for prayers “in this dramatic new situation,” according to a statement. The attacks, which occurred […]