Stories of restoring the sacred, and updates from StoryTel Foundation.
Vatican newspaper says Shakespeare was secret Catholic
By Sarah Delaney
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- There is "little doubt" that William Shakespeare was a Catholic who was forced to hide his faith in Protestant England while leaving hints about his faith throughout his vast body of work, said an opinion piece in the Vatican newspaper.
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Here is a blog we found about St. Peter Church in Omaha, the subject of StoryTel's next On Assignment documentary. To read the full blog go to:
Here is an exerpt. The man speaking is St. Peter’s pastor Rev. Damien Cook:
“I just feel really blessed,” he says. “There’s always been faith here, and I inherited that from the priests who went before me. Even if the congregation was smaller the people here were really receptive to the whole evangelization process — of going out and telling their friends, ‘You should come down to St. Peter’s for Mass. Just try it once.’ And once people do they get kind of hooked.
Rev. Cook is on the left
“So the people themselves are the greatest gift to me. They really want to know more about the faith, they really do want the sacred and are excited about restoring the sacred.”
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
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By Tom Dermody
PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) -- Boxes wrapped in ribbon and a happy little boy are Christmas images, but the combination had another joyful meaning Dec. 11 during ceremonies closing the Diocese of Peoria's inquiry into an alleged miraculous healing through the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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Our On Assignment documentary is almost done! We are really proud of how it's come together and can't wait to share it with everyone. Look for it in early 2012. In the mean time here are a few production pictures.
Just east above a stretch of I-480 stands St. Peter Catholic Church at 27th and Leavenworth. Its classical Greco-Roman facade is unlike anything in that sketchy near downtown Omaha district. Amid ramshackle urban surroundings the stone edifice is a solid, substantial front door for a poor, working class area made up of transients, bars, liquor stores and social service agencies as well as light industrial businesses, eateries, artist studios, apartments and homes.
When St. Peter’s pastor Rev. Damien Cook arrived in 2004 the church teetered on its last legs.
“It was a dying parish,” he says flatly.
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By Martin Rogers
(This is from Feb. 2010)
Twelve years ago at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, a 17-year-old speedskating prodigy named Kirstin Holum was tapped for future greatness.
When Holum placed sixth in the 3,000 meters – one of the most grueling disciplines in the women’s program, a lung-scraping four-minute bust of lactic acid torture – speedskating insiders predicted a golden future and speculated she may not even reach her peak for another decade.
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What Would it Take for Christianity to Dominate the Arts?
By Jennifer Fulwiler
Where is the great Christian art? I’ve been wondering that ever since my conversion, and lately it seems that that question has been on other people’s minds as well. Marc Barnes recently took a look at what’s wrong with Christian rock, then found the answer: Christian radio. Kevin O’Brien made the point that “the True, the Beautiful and the Good echo the glory of the Holy Trinity, and we dare not as artist or audience settle for the Trite, the Banal and the Mediocre.”
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By Alice von Hildebrand
"Many sicknesses are contagious; health is not. It is regrettable but it is a fact. Since original sin, intellectual viruses have penetrated the human mind and have affected its reasoning power. This might explain why slogans have a powerful appeal to most men..."
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