Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
Year: 1943 Filming: Black & White Length: 156 minutes Genre: Biography/Drama/Inspirational/Religious Maturity: G (suitable for all ages) Main Cast: Jennifer Jones (Bernadette Souburous), Charles Bickford (Abbe Peyramale), Vincent Price (Prosecutor Du Tour), Gladys Cooper (Sr.…
Year: 1966 Filming: Color Length: 120 minutes Genre: Biography/Drama/History/Inspirational/Political/Religious Maturity: PG (for brief language and intense thematic elements) Cast: Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More), Robert Shaw (King Henry VIII), Wendy Hiller (Alice More), Susannah York…
Year: 1988 Filming: Color Length: 108 minutes Genre: Biography/Drama/Inspirational/Religious Maturity: PG (for brief language and intense thematic elements) Main Cast: Ben Gazzara (Don Bosco), Patsy Kensit (Lina), Karl Zinny (Giuseppe), Laurent Terzieff (Monsignor Gastaldi), Raymond…
It was Christmas when my uncle introduced me to him. His poetry has echoed off the walls of my room since then, and his words have rushed in my defence when I have been in…
Even though Tolkien disliked a literary work being analyzed in reference to its author’s life, he admitted that “[a]n author cannot…remain wholly unaffected by his experience” (Tolkien, 2011, p. xxii). And since in his life…
Whilst writing my book, Life in the Georgian Court, smallpox was never far away from my research notes (metaphorically, of course). In fact, it was a royal brush with smallpox that changed forever the way…
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Joseph Campbell Introduction The Rizal history course in the Republic of the Philippines is mandated by our Constitution. Republic…
Great antiques are not necessarily defined by great expense or rarity. Nor need they come from afar, or boast a provenance from some prestigious auction house or country manor. Rather, great antiques are simply the…
As all of his biographers remind us, Karol Wojtyla came of age at one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century. When he was 19 years old and just commencing his university career, the…
There aren’t very many well-known Swedish Catholics. The most famous is probably St Birgitta (as a Swedish St Birgitta scholar insists we should call her, to distinguish her from St Bridget of Kildare).…
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