FILMS AND BOOKS

If we watch the news, watch talk shows, or read the internet happenings, we find great, abiding cynicism, profound cynicism.

This book is chilling reading. One wishes it were a novel rather than a factual recounting of the Nazi World War II slaughter of Jews in what was then the Soviet Union.

One thing we can truly know about the Rosary is that nothing about it is arbitrary.

"When you help a child today, you write the history of tomorrow." That quote by a priest-turned-sainthood candidate inspired a Catholic school art teacher to write a children's book about him.

Her second chapter book should be ready for "tween" readers this spring, particularly for those who enjoy dog characters.

Dating has been replaced by “hooking up” and “hanging out,” making the traditional days of “courtship” obsolete. Or, has it?

For this Easter, Hahn tackles the mysteries of the Last Supper and the Cross so that we may better immerse ourselves in the most holy of seasons.

An entire page of notes on how to play Paul — nothing precise but overall notes on how to approach it, helped. "I've never had a director do something so tellingly about a character," he said.

As for his adoptive parents, "they're excited as well to see what happens with the film and to see how many people we can impact."

"Salvation history... is the story of God entering our world... most often through ordinary stuff," the authors write.