Today I’m posting on Martin Luther King, Jr. over at Ignitum Today: Today we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., a personal hero after whom I named my son, and perhaps the twentieth century’s greatest prophet. Like Jesus, King consistently chose non-violence in the face of hatred and brutal persecution. In harmony with Catholic social teaching, …
Fr. Robert Barron and his Word on Fire ministry just released the official video trailer for their next film series, titled Catholicism: The New Evangelization. The documentary follows the success of Fr. Barron’s ten-part Catholicism series. In this one he travels around the world, looking for examples of “new ardor, new expressions, and new methods” …
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According to Fr. Robert Barron, Les Misérables is “replete with Christian themes and can’t be understood apart from the Christian worldview.” Here he unpacks the Christian, and specifically Catholic, symbolism within the story. What did think about the Les Misérables film?
Fr. Robert Barron comments on the Church’s counter-cultural teachings on marriage and sexuality showing how they point to God’s love for the world. The Catholic philosophy of sex differs from both Puritanism, a blanket repression of sexual desire, and the “Playboy” mentality, which is all about self-indulgence. His commentary evokes many of the same …
Tom Peterson was a successful, award-winning advertising executive for almost three decades. But in 1997, he experienced a profound conversion at a parish retreat that set him in a new direction. He applied his advertising skills to spreading the Gospel and the result was two new media apostolates. The first is called VirtueMedia.org, which helps …
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