Die Hard a Christmas movie? It might be downright scriptural! It’s one of those questions in popular culture that we bat around every year with different commentators offering different criteria for what is required to fit the description. For my part, it’s enough that the film is set on Christmas Eve, at a Christmas party, and begins with the theme of reconciling an estranged family in time for holiday celebrations. Yes, Die Hard is obviously a Christmas movie. Moreover, many commentators have noted that the hero of Die Hard, John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, clearly embodies a version of a Christ figure. McClane descends from the sky bearing gifts for his own people, but he soon gets bruised and bloodied for…
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
