According to St. Catherine of Siena, “There is no sin or wrong that gives a man a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.” Anger is one of the seven deadliest of sins. The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to these sins as deadly or capital, “because they engender other sins, […]
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Why did Marvel Comics, famous for bringing to life such superheroes as Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men and the Avengers, create a biography of St. John Paul II’s life in 1982? Here is the story behind the remarkable comic book that has captivated millions since its first publication. The story is recounted on the final page
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During the last week of July 2019, Donahue Academy in Ave Maria, Florida hosted what they called “Treasures of the Catholic Church Camp.” It was inspired by both the non-fiction book The Last Monks of Skellig Michael as well as the comic book Finnian and the Seven Mountains published by Voyage Comics. The event was sponsored both
Actor Andy Serkis has a reputation for bringing to life many devilish characters. He is most famous for Gollum in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but also portrayed Supreme Leader Snoke in The Last Jedi. A few years ago he took on an amazing audio drama based on C.S. Lewis’ classic Screwtape Letters. In it he
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In general, today’s mass media, whether its movies, television, YouTube or comic books, is often directly opposed to Christian values. You don’t have to look far to find evidence of the sad state of entertainment in modern society. It’s tempting to boycott everything. The reasoning goes, “If Hollywood isn’t going to produce, good, Christian films,
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There is a lot of mystery surrounding October 13 and much of it has to do with the fate of the Knights Templar, a warrior-monk religious order that may have inspired the Jedi Knights. Read –> Mark Hamill transforms into a Knights Templar, returning to origins of the Jedi In the early drafts of the
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi presented many unexpected twists. One of them was Luke Skywalker’s ability to bilocate, fighting Kylo Ren on Crait while strenuously meditating on Ahch-To. Surprisingly, while this may seem like a strange piece of science-fiction, it is not. There have been countless saints in the Christian tradition who were able to
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War of the Realms was published as a Marvel event series from April to July 2019, and in trade paperback at the end of August 2019. Marvel has been building to this event in the various Thor series over the preceding years, including Thor, The Mighty Thor, and The Unworthy Thor, all written by Jason
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When preparing for the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Return of the King, Peter Jackson’s crew turned to a real-life monastic castle that has captivated the imagination of many throughout the centuries. They looked to Mont St. Michel, a fortified Catholic monastery that was built on a lonely island off the coast of northern France.
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