A one-minute trailer for the new video study series from Ascension Press: Foundations of Faith: A Journey Through the Catechism. Featuring Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Dr. Italy”) and many other well-known Catholic educators and authors. Filmed across the globe, this 20-session, video-based study program features some of......
16 June, 2025 No comment
Dr. Italy shares highlights of his book - 40 Days, 40 Ways - A new Look at Lent. This is an abbreviated version, for global Catholic television, of a talk he frequently gives during Lenten Missions in the Lenten Season....
09 March, 2025 No comment
In this video, Dr. Italy discusses Augustine's fight against both Manicheans and Pelagians defending free will on the one hand and the utter necessity of grace on the other in light of original sin....
26 August, 2024 No comment
In this brief video by Sherwood Fellows the key themes of Lent are explored - the mystery of sin, temptation, and transformation through a journey into the desert, the way of repentance and prayer....
03 March, 2024 No comment
Many are aware that Catholics believe in "the real presence." In this video, Dr. Italy explains the various ways that Jesus Christ is truly and really present in the Church's liturgy, culminating in the Eucharist....
18 April, 2023 No comment
This brief video gives us a glimpse of the heart and vision of Perpetua, a young Roman woman whose resistance to the demands of a pagan society lead to her martyrdom...
05 March, 2023 No comment
In this video, Dr. Italy discusses the importance of Ignatius, 2nd successor to Peter, Paul, and Barnabas in the city of Antioch. The precious 7 letters that survive from this father of the church are a precious testimony to the apostolic tradition. Ignatius of......
16 October, 2022 No comment
One and a half minute trailer for the new video study series from Ascension Press: What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith, by Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Dr. Italy”) and Andrew and Sarah Swafford. Filmed on location in Rome, “The Eternal City,” this 10-part video......
19 July, 2022 1 Comment
One of the great themes of Easter has always been New Creation - the death of our old selves which we leave buried in the tomb and a new beginning powered by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is undeniable that the darkness of this world is profound and the lengthening shadows can often lead to despair. But the light of the risen Christ has come and the darkness can never overcome it....
06 April, 2022 No comment
Into Death and Beyond it is an inspiring short film of the last days of St. Maximilian Kolbe and the prisoners with whom he was confined in the starvation bunker of Auschwitz. Little is known for certain about what transpired in the starvation bunker......
06 April, 2022 No comment