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The next stages include gathering stories “that have been passed down . . . by Adele or about Adele,” as explained by the Very Reverend John Girotti, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Green Bay, in a press conference. He emphasized the oral tradition as a “very real thing” in Northern Wisconsin, the largest Belgian settlement in the United States. Adele herself could neither read nor write, and the Shrine describes the accounts of her life and visions that have been passed down through generations as a “constant testimony of the Christian faithful since Our Lady’s appearance to Adele.” “From a theological standpoint, a picture will be painted of her life,” said Fr. Girotti. “All of this will help in the discernment, whether we can go to the next step.” 

After a meaningful plot reveal, the film zeroes in on the interiority of Maria’s murderer, who is in the room with us. In light of this revelation, perpetrators, victims, sinners, and saints stand on equal ground, because mercy infuses justice. Despite our discomfort with this evening of scales, grace still does its work. It vitalizes the bleak room of the prison, a place one character likens to Hell.

Moses the Black: “No One Can Serve Two Masters”  By Marge Hynes, Writer Moses the Black imagines a modern-day Chicago gang leader, Malik, whose life echoes the brutal conversion of one of the Church’s most arresting saints. The film asks the viewer to remain, uncomfortably, inside the world humanity constructs without Christ: blood, death, sin, […]

Author Emily Cavins draws us into Kateri’s life with depth, respect, and insight, revealing a woman who found beauty in great suffering and God’s grace in the creation she so dearly loved and revered. 

Cheryl Hughes shows us that although he died over forty-five years ago, Fulton Sheen remains a relevant model for living out the Catholic faith and sharing it with others in the modern world. The book displays why Sheen was someone who captivated the attention of others, often reaching more non-Catholics than Catholics.