Mark your calendar for September 2011, for what promises to be one of the most beautiful and inspiring events in Catholic media next year: The Catholicism project. Fr. Robert Barron has been traveling the globe “to explore, through a global journey, the living culture of the Catholic Church.” It’s quite possibly the most ambitious...
Where did the tradition of carving pumpkins come from? That is the question that haunts Jack, a pumpkin in need of psychiatric help. In the following video by Fr. Roderick Vonhögen of SQPN, Jack learns the legend behind this practice and comes to terms with his own insecurities. Here’s another account of the legend,...
“The Chicken runs at midnight.” Stranger words were never spoken. But if you know the story of Major League Baseball coach Rich Donnelly, then you also know that more beautiful words have never been spoken. I first heard about Rich’s story through an amazing DVD called Champions of Faith. If baseball is your second...
The Redemptorists of the Edmonton-Toronto Province have put together a superb resource for Catholic educators with their website RedemptoristTV. Not only does the site feature two excellent video series–one on the Eucharist, the other on Catholic family life–but each video comes with a study guide and an optional take-home assignment. Each video is around...
The good news is that there are Catholic teachers, administrators and catechists who are willing to share their wisdom, knowledge and experience with anyone willing to follow their blogs. The bad news is that there are so few of these bloggers out there. Currently, there are over 7,000 elementary and secondary Catholic schools in...
We like to think that we can manage on our own. We pride ourselves in being free, independent, and in control of our own destiny. It doesn’t always work out like that. Our car gets broken into, the baseball game gets called because of rain, or we get home from the store only to...
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