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John Paul II: I Kept Looking for You
Movie
This new film is the world's biggest documentary on Pope St. John Paul II. It reveals his remarkable legacy in the history of the Church and the world, as well as how his extraordinary personality, generosity, courage, and sense of humor united people on all continents, regardless of their social...
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The Opus Joyous Show
1 season
The Opus Joyous Show weaves a wonderful story of spiritual adventure rich in Catholic symbolism and clear and effective explanations of faith, virtue, and the challenges of responding to Christ's call to heroic battle with evil.
Making special appearances throughout the show are The Virgin Mary,...
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Joseph: Beloved Son Rejected Slave
Movie
The thrilling Biblical story of Joseph is told in this high quality 3-D animated feature film for children ages 5 and up. Young Joseph is a dreamer, indulged by his father and resented by his older brothers who soon sell him into slavery without their father's knowledge. Now captive in Egypt, Jos...
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Paul VI: The Misunderstood Pope
Movie
He was the Pope who closed the Second Vatican Council. He led the Catholic Church in the midst of one of its worst crises in history. He steered the course of the Church through the revolution of 1968 that shook the moral basis of a civilization. He was under fire from Lefèbvre fundamentalists, p...
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Prayer: A Surge of the Heart
Movie
Finding time to pray can be difficult. Modern life is very busy with so many distractions at every turn, and there's always another job to be done. This inspiring presentation challenges us to make more time for God in our lives and highlights the importance of an ever-deepening life of prayer. I...
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The Problem of Evil with Jimmy Akin
Movie
If God is all-good and all-powerful, then why is there evil?
This is perhaps the most vexing challenge that non-believers pose to Christians. Our world of violence, greed, and suffering seems incompatible with the God of the Gospel. How can we answer the challenge?
In The Problem of Evil, Jimmy...
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Father Michael McGivney: The Story of the Connecticut Priest Who Founded the Knights of the Columbus
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Father Michael McGivney is a documentary that brings to life the story of one of America's most extraordinary Catholic priests. Born in Connecticut of Irish immigrant parents just a few years before the Civil War, Michael McGivney grew up at a time when millions of Catholic immigrants were strugg...
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Kristoph & the First Christmas Tree: A Legend of St. Boniface
Movie + 2 extras
Based on an ancient legend, Kristoph and the First Christmas Tree is a video production drawn from the family-friendly story written by children's author Claudia Cangilla McAdam and illustrated by Dave Hill.
It's Christmas Eve in the year 722, and the young orphan Kristoph is accompanying the mi...
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Light of Love
Movie
We often have ideas of religious life... either kneeling in a convent or out in the streets assisting the poor. While both of these scenes are essential to the life as a sister, Light of Love takes a deeper look into understanding the call... the "why" of religious life. By interviewing five sist...
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The Lord's Prayer: Reflection on the Changes by Mark Giszczak
Movie
Recently the Italian bishops made a change to the Italian Missal, re-translating the line "and lead us not into temptation" from the Our Father. Dr. Mark Giszczak, associate professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute, explains why they believe the new translation is more accurate an...
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Lost Gospels or False Gospels? The Truth about the Other Gospels & Early Christianity
Movie
Christians and many non-Christians have long accepted Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—the four Gospels of the New Testament—as the only reliable accounts of the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. Recent media stories and certain best-selling books have alerted the public to alternative writing...
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Mendel: The Father of Modern Genetics
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This beautifully produced European documentary tells the story of Gregor Mendel, a scientist, Catholic priest and scholar renowned as the founder of genetics and discoverer of the laws of inheritance. He was also an astute observer of the sky and the stars, all this as a monk and abbot of an Augu...
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No Greater Love: A Unique Portrait of the Carmelite Nuns
Movie
After ten years of correspondence, filmmaker Michael Whyte was given unprecedented access to the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, in London's Notting Hill. The monastery, founded in 1878, is home to the nuns of the Discalced Order of Carmelites, who lead a cloistered life dedicated to prayer, ...
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Ocean of Mercy
Movie
At the dawn of the twentieth century, three voices rose up from Poland to proclaim an urgent message, a message powerful enough to alter the course of an age plunging into spiritual darkness.
Filmed on location in more than twenty cities across Poland and the United States, this true story exami...
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One Sister's Vocation: Daughters of Saint Paul
Movie
What is vocational discernment? Why would a young woman consider religious life? What should she do when she feels God calling her? A group of Daughters of St. Paul and young women discerning religious life—gathered in Tempe, Arizona, for Sr. Maria Kim's perpetual profession—explore these questio...
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One Step is Enough: Cardinal John Henry Newman
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One Step is Enough is a biography of John Henry Newman, a 19th century British theologian and historian. Newman was raised in the Anglican Church and became an Anglican priest and a professor at Oxford. Over time he became critical of both the evangelical emphasis on dramatic personal conversion ...
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Saint Maria Goretti: Fourteen Flowers of Pardon
Movie
This is the true story of a young virgin's ultimate act of love. On her deathbed, eleven year old Maria Goretti forgave Alessandro Serenelli, the man who mortally stabbed her because she resisted his attempted rape. Alessandro was sentenced to thirty years in prison for murdering Maria, and after...
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Saint Celestine: The Pope Who Quit
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This is the riveting and mysterious story of Pope St. Celestine V, the pope who retired from the papacy after a very short reign. At the close of the tumultuous Middle Ages, this future monk and pope seemed destined from birth to save the world. He became a hermit and the founder of a religious o...
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Saint Francis of Assisi: His Life and Miracles
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This new docu-drama on the life and miracles of St. Francis is based on the official writings of Brother Thomas Celano, a close companion and friar with St. Francis who spent many years with the saint. Brother Thomas called Francis an "alter Christos" who was like "a holy mirror of the sanctity o...
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Saint Nicholas: The Real Story
Movie
Everybody knows the story of Santa Claus, the red–suited figure who lives at the North Pole and distributes gifts to good children every Christmas eve. But is there any historical evidence on which this jolly old character is based? Was there a real Santa Claus? To answer that question, host Mark...
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Saint Rita of Cascia: The True Story
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A compelling docu-drama that tells the whole story of the amazing life of St. Rita of Cascia, the very popular saint who lived in Italy in the 14th century. Famous as the patronness of hopeless situations, St. Rita dealt with many very difficult and tragic events in her life. Through it all she d...
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The Secret of Saint Thérèse
Movie
Called "the greatest saint of modern times" by Pope St. Pius X, Thérèse of Lisieux lived a hidden life in a Carmelite monastery and died at only twenty-four years old. Yet, her "secret" of sanctity has made her not only a great modern saint, but a Doctor of the Church. She promised to spend her H...