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Today’s video is based on a poem written by a North American writer, Charles Bukowski called “Nirvana.” The poem tells the story of a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the “way to somewhere.” He is “cut loose from purpose” and lives a sort of aimless...
This video expresses an all too overlooked truth, that just because someone claims to be Catholic it does not mean that they actually are one. A girl is taken into a court room, convicted of being Catholic. After being questioned and insisting that she is Catholic,...
It has been extremely difficult to find videos which cover contraception and family planning from a Catholic perspective. However, it seems that we at Catholic-Link are not the only people to have noticed the lack of resources in this area, and this short video was...
How can you follow a Church that still believes that sex is a sin? This is the question one friend asks of another and thus begins a fantastic overview of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Theology of the Body (TOB) is much more than just a theology of sex in the...
The video invites us to take a deeper look at the authenticity of our faith. Ryan is living a life of severe inconsistency. He tells us a testimony about his life as a “Christian”. Yet we see that his relationship with God is almost non-existent. Nothing in his heart...
Catholic-link.com – What if you worked your whole life and, on the day of your death, you saw for the first time that you weren’t doing what you were supposed to? That you worked for someone else, for a false idea of who you are? The video, narrated by Alan Watts...
Nicholas Petron's grandfather, Rocco Galasso, moved to New York City from Italy with the hopes of making a better life. For eighteen years, Rocco served as owner and superintendent of an apartment building where much of his family resided--until the day they were...
The video is produced by the National Organization for Marriage (USA) and takes on the subject of homosexuality from a social and political perspective. It seeks to explain the perniciousness of the pseudo institution, homosexual marriage, as it relates to a healthy...
Besides the cultural interest, the video could provide you with an opportunity to explain the importance of locating ourselves within history. Ever since God became man and, in doing so, inserted himself in a particular way in our time, history has become an even more...
"Doll Face" is a video published by Global Short Film Network and made by Andy Huang. It proposes a critique about how we understand our relationship with the media and the paradigms that they present. In the first place, it's important to recognize that the...
Security cameras just catch the wrongdoers, right? This short advertisement by Coca-Cola reminds us that good thing are recorded too. Daily we are bombed with messages of crisis, war, theft, hate, murder, etc... And while they certainly exist, we aren't being told the...
The video is the result of a study done by BOX1824, a Brazilian research company specializing in behavioral sciences and consumer trends. It spells out the basics on the last two generations, Baby Boomers and Generation X,...
Today's video makes a great link between what we find in Scripture and our day to day lives. Like all things, sports and other examples that we find in the video are good things in themselves. There is nothing wrong with being a sports fan. Still, the video invites...
In 1985 at the UN headquarters in New York, Mother Teresa was introduced by the UN secretary of the time, Javier Perez of Cuellar, as "the most powerful woman in the world". How can this be said of a woman who dedicated her life to the least powerful (at least in the...
“It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite” (Is. 29:8). Vanity is a...
Doing an experiment for Gene Weingarten's story in The Washington Post, Joshua Bell, one of the nation's greatest violinists and musician plays a few songs in a D.C. Metro stop. What happens? A lot of people walk past, and a few dollars appear in his violin case....
"What makes a good leader?" The first series of videos we are presenting today is from a CNN special looking to answer that question. It is one that all Christians should know the answer to. We are called to be leaders in our society. Reporter Fareed...
Catholic-link.com - This video has three very interesting aspects. First, we see the people´s indifference before an obstacle that is completely obvious. The second, the child´s common sense as he decides to take on the immense challenge presented to him. Lastly, we...
his Thai commercial is brilliant. The means of communication that technology provides us with are precisely that, means. They aren't ends in themselves. But if they are for us, that means we have forgotten the importance of living in reality. This...
Catholic-link.com - The video proposes a possible future where virtual reality becomes the center of all human experience: "experience is the new reality." People gradually and continually separate themselves from reality. One can feel, remember, live, experience...
Admittedly funny, the absurdity of the fact that 3.5 million people (including myself) took the time to see this is quite surprising. I couldn't help but asking, "Why is the absurd and pointless so attractive?"...
Evolution, also called The Evolution Of Beauty, is an advertising campaign launched by Unilever in 2006 as part of its Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, to promote the newly created Dove Self-Esteem Fund. The film opens with a "pretty, but ordinary girl" (Canadian...