William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark material ...

While Catholics around the world are familiar with St. Faustina Kowalska and her connection to divine mercy, many may not know about the way in which Jesus talked to her about her calling, hell, and ...

Building a wall around a playground located next to a cliff won’t hold children prisoner but rather will enable them to play freely without risking injury, G.K. Chesterton wrote. As walls make a ...

For horror fans, Night of the Living Dead is not just a classic, it’s a rebirth of sorts. Sure, there were zombie movies before George Romero’s 1968 creepfest. But Night and its sequels defined the ...

on theartsdesk">profound themes such as faith and belief. That she brings her story, one that indirectly references the genocide that the country would experience a decade later, together with some ...

Faith and superstition have long been partners in humanity’s intellectual test kitchen, and nothing they have concocted is as varied, colorful, and addictive as our last course: the afterlife. Bart D.

Over the last year or so, I have published a number of posts about unusual phenomena that occur around the time of death. I’ve written about terminal lucidity, when people with severe cognitive ...

Mattingly: The U.S. Secret Service spotted the hunter's stand high in a tree near Palm Beach International Airport.