Why You’re Buried Facing East & Priests Are Buried Facing West
In traditional communities, Catholic laity are buried facing east while priests are buried facing west. Curious to learn the reason why?
When a Pope Banned Streetlights and Trains
The predecessor of the first pope to travel by train banned streetlights and railroads in the papal states. Why?
Listen Close: The Story of Rome’s Real ”Talking Statues”
👂 Are you listening? In Rome, you can hear what the famous 'talking statues' have to say! 🗣️
Saint J. R. R. Tolkien? It’s Entirely Possible
Could legendary fantasy author of the best-selling novel ever written and fierce Catholic, J. R. R. Tolkien become a saint? Learn why it's possible
When a Billion People Listened to the Bible Read From Space...
On Christmas Eve in 1968, one in four people on Earth tuned in to listen to the Bible being read - from space.
Why Medieval Composers Called This Sound ”The Devil in Music”
For hundreds of years after a Benedictine monk invented modern musical notation, the Devil was said to exist in THIS musical tone.
A Lullaby for the Massacre of the Innocents: The Medieval Christmas...
The Coventry Carol is a Christmas carol, meant to be a lullaby sung by the mothers of the doomed children slain in the Massacre of the Innocents.
There’s TWO Purgatories? Aquinas Says Its Entirely Possible
Why do we have ghosts that come back to Earth? According to Thomas Aquinas, it's because there's TWO different purgatories!
Pictures: See the Stunning ‘Chapel of Bones’ in Portugal
Made with 5000 exhumed corpses, a sign above the entrance says: 'we bones, are here, waiting for yours.'
