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## [Mary in the Movies: A Review of "Full of Grace"](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/05/17/mary-in-the-movies-a-review-of-full-of-grace)
Published by [Danielle Peters](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/danielle-peters)
For more than a century, the Blessed Virgin Mary has caught the imaginations of filmmakers of all religious persuasions: devout believers, agnostic, and even atheist affiliations. The intersection of theology and secular culture presents the monumental challenge to filmmakers of depicting what escapes all visual categories: Transcendence and Mystery. The cinematic depictions of Mary of Nazareth ra...
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## [A Culture of Encounter: Root and Fruit of Human Dignity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/04/04/a-culture-of-encounter-root-and-fruit-of-human-dignity)
Published by [Danielle Peters](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/danielle-peters)
It happened on November 6, 2013. At the end of his weekly general audience with approximately 50,000 attendees, Pope Francis caught sight of a man in his fifties. He was sitting in a wheelchair and accompanied by his aunt Lotto who recalled: “We didn’t think we would be so close to the Pope, but the Swiss Guard kept ushering us forward until we were in a corner in the front row. When he came close...
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