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‘Breakthrough’ movie: A true story of unconditional love, prayer, and miracles
Speaking about her upcoming movie, Breakthrough, actress Chrissy Metz told CatholicDigest, “It was so nice to be part of a real story that I know is going to change people's minds, their perspectives, their hearts.” The star of the hit…
Ashley Bratcher reveals her personal experience with the horrors of abortion
Actress Ashley Bratcher, who plays prolife activist Abby Johnson in movie Unplanned, was nearly a victim of abortion herself. The movie is based on Johnson’s book also titled Unplanned. Johnson worked for Planned Parenthood before realizing…
Filmmakers hope ‘Unplanned’ helps end abortion
Slated for release March 29, the movie Unplanned tells the story of how Abby Johnson (played by Ashley Bratcher) rises in the ranks of Planned Parenthood to become the youngest clinic director in the nation. Her world — and what she…
Making Lent a fruitful season for teens
Seeking to fill a void they had identified, Katie Prejean McGrady and her husband Tommy McGrady collaborated to write Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens (Ave Maria Press, 2019), a resource designed to help young people have the most…
Tim Tebow makes his big screen debut co-producing ‘Run the Race’
The new movie Run the Race begins with the main character Zach Truett about to play an important game as a high school quarterback. However, as former NFL quarterback and devout Christian Tim Tebow said (he co-produced the film along with…
Bishop Robert Barron: Leading the frontlines of evangelization
Bishop Robert Barron is one of the most widely read and respected clergy members in the Church today. He is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, a global media apostolate. Since 2015 he has served as an auxiliary bishop of the…
Divorce and the need to help married couples
Years ago, if you told Catholic author and blogger Leila Miller you were getting a divorce, she may have told you how sorry she was, and that would be that. But today she’d do everything in her power to help save your marriage. That’s…
An exorcist gives tools for spiritual warfare
Fr. Paolo Carlin is a diocesan exorcist and a member of the International Association of Exorcists. Using his firsthand knowledge and experience as an exorcist, Fr. Carlin authored An Exorcist Explains How to Heal the Possessed: And Help…
Did Shakespeare have Catholic sympathies?
Clare Asquith is the author of Shakespeare and the Resistance (PublicAffairs, 2018), a book in which she argues that William Shakespeare harbored Catholic sympathies and covertly critiqued the religious fabric of his age through his…
‘Romero’ film released on DVD as Church prepares to canonize the martyred archbishop
With the Oct. 14 canonization of El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, Paulist Productions is releasing on DVD the 1989 movie Romero. The newly remastered film tells the story of Archbishop Romero — a bookish cleric turned lion — who in…
