There’s a certain extra potency when the radical message of the Gospel – the good news – comes from someone with a story like John Pridmore’s, a man who was once so rotten – so dead – that his rescue was truly as dramatic as a last-ditch heart defibrillation. I will...
Existence of God
Interview With Bono: “Jesus Was Either The Son Of God Or Nuts!”
Our model is Jesus Christ and we discover paradigmatic examples in the lives of the saint. Period. When we speak about the conversion or faith of famous people, we are in no way affirming them as models of Christian life. Human beings that are still walking the walk...
The History of a Love Submerged in Water
La Maison en Petits Cubes (つみきのいえTsumiki no Ie, "The House of Small Cubes") is a 2008 Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō. It won several prizes, the most important being the Grand prize for short films (the Annecy Cristal) at the Annecy...
The Great Christian Paradox: My Happiness Is About You, Not Me
My happiness is seeing you happy. There is nothing that my heart longs for, more than the sentinel longs for the morning light, than to see you smile. This is the fundamental truth that flows in the veins of everything that is good and Christian. It is a truth that...
Ben Stein Debates with Atheist Richard Dawkins: Freedom from God Means Freedom for Man?
We owe a certain debt to Dawkins which I suspect has until now gone unrecognized. Dawkins, one of the world’s foremost figureheads of atheism, coined the word “meme” in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. These days, tech-savvy tweeters know a good meme when they see...
How Will This Man Respond When His Dentist Tells Him God Doesn’t Exist?
This short video comes from Vision Fudge, an organization which makes films in order to help people explore life’s big questions. Whether or not God exists is definitely one of those questions. In the video they ask three questions about belief in God: Does...
Gratitude: A project to reach happiness?
We're taking advantage of the start of this new year to share a very fitting video. It is of a TED Talk (TED is a not for profit which is dedicated to “Ideas worth spreading”) which takes place in San Francisco. The theme is a project called “Happiness Revealed”. ...
God is Dead? Fr. Pontifex Crushes the Claims of “New Atheism” with Spoken Word
Today’s video responds in a refreshing and appealing way to some of the most common and constant accusations against the faith and the Church in our day: the false equivalence between faith and irrationality, the false dichotomy between faith and science, the mistaken...
In the Midst of Chaos, Does God Have a Plan for Your Life?
In today's world, the presence of planners, calendars, schedules, and agendas is almost overwhelming. What's even more stifling is how many times our plans don't work out. The other day I had marked down an event about 2 weeks out. I set around 6 reminders to go off...
Is There Life After Birth? An Interesting Dialogue Between 1 Unborn Babies
This short video shows a brief conversation between two unborn babies, one a skeptic and one a believer. Are you one of those strange people that believe in the mother? The dialogue is simple enough and presents the question of the existence of a life after death in a...