FILMS AND BOOKS

Ten films that showcase characters experiencing a positive change of heart, mind or outlook, something Catholics strive for daily, particularly in Lent.

Related YouTube videos, available at wau.org/faithseries, also help guide readers.

Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on the memoir the men co-wrote with Jeffrey E. Stern, the film traces their journeys from youth to adulthood, showing how their life experiences prepared them to react as they did when a terrorist attacked a Paris-bound train.

Filmmaker Tim Reckart, who grew up in Tucson, “Joseph," “Mary” and a “cow” talk to Catholic News Service about their experiences making the movie “The Star.”

It’s the Advent Season with Christmas nearing and, as the old cliché goes, everyone loves a good mystery! This season, we have a very good one in Fr. Dwight Longnecker’s, “Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men.”

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a new release of music for Advent and Christmas, multiple Grammy award-winning mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli sings with the pope’s Sistine Chapel Choir.

CHICAGO (CNS) — The life of Fr. Augustus Tolton already reads like a novel and now it is immortalized on stage with the new play “Tolton: From Slave to Priest,” produced by St. Luke Productions from Battle Ground, Washington.

As long as we understand Catholic teaching on this issue, we will find Fradd’s book to be informative and well worth the read.

They answer a common request from parents: "Teach us how to pray, and then teach us how to pray with our children."

Everybody seems to have their own favorite saint; whole professions and vocations have their patron saints, and even some countries have a patron saint that stands out in their history. In the Southwest, we have Junípero Serra, OFM, who founded a total of 10 missions from Baja California to San Francisco.