This year’s 74th annual celebration features books, films and television programs that showcase themes of hope, generosity and the quiet, often unseen heroism born of selfless acts.
2023 Christopher Awards showcase transcendent stories of hope, humanity and healing
What are you reading for Lent? Local Eucharistic Revival team members weigh in
The Central Minnesota Catholic asked members of the local Eucharistic Revival teams to weigh in on what they will be reading this Lenten season. Here is a sampling of their responses.
Let in the darkness to show the light: A plea for Catholic fiction
“That’s where every human being lives: doubt in tension with faith, despair in tension with hope, hardness in tension with charity.”
Religious, secular leaders offer tools for hope in post-COVID-19 times
“At a moment when even the most optimistic among us grasps for hope at times during our current mental health pandemic comes three helpful survival guides, reminding us about where our hope in anchored.”
Books provide research, helpful guidance on raising Catholic children
What connects these three books is the important role that parents play in the faith lives of their children. Each approaches the topic from a different perspective.
St. Cloud author writes about friendship, motherhood and marriage
“I write mainly about friendship, relationship, marriage and being a mom in central Minnesota. My goal was to be real,” SarahMarlette said.
Christopher Awards announce book winners, postpone ceremony to October
The book category of the awards recognizes outstanding storytelling that lifts the spirit and shows how every individual has worth and can make a difference.
Author explores literature from Homer to Tolkien
Starting with the ancients and leaving off in the mid-20th century, the author aims to whet your appetite with short introductions to the tales his book’s subtitle claims that “every Catholic should know.”