Commodified faith dominates the near-future vision of Brazil rendered in “Divine Love,” the brilliantly provocative and arresting latest feature from director Gabriel Mascaro (“Neon Bull”). With ...
The Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, are twin heroes of ancient Greek myth symbolizing brotherhood, courage, and divine guidance.
From both the right and the left, commentators are mourning the lost opportunity of Amoris Laetitia, claiming that it adds little to the conversation that we did not already know. While it does not ...
With our limited human thinking, we struggle to truly understand the mysterious and overwhelming love of God. We often complicate the matter with our own fears and misconceptions, telling ourselves ...
Sunday, Aug. 18, is the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). Mass readings: Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10; Psalm 40:2-4, 18; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53. The first reading from the Book of Jeremiah ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anchoress and mystic who, in the late fourteenth century, wrote about her visions of Christ suffering, in a work since known as Revelations of Divine Love. She is ...
In the previous episode, Act IV of From Consolation to Catastrophe, the Jewish people, flanked by the Infinite God in front, and the God of Israel behind, seemed primed to enter history. But not so ...
While Catholics around the world are familiar with St. Faustina Kowalska and her connection to divine mercy, many may not know about the way in which Jesus talked to her about her calling, hell, and ...
The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...
When you're looking for love it's a struggle not to get impatient and to put your trust in Divine Timing. The longer it takes, the more desperate you feel and the harder you have to work at keeping ...