Providentially, one of the more sobering, numbing, and yet unifying films of recent years was just released during this time of a disturbing rise in antisemitism in America. The movie is about the ...

In the dark hours of the night, battling chronic insomnia and losing his faith in God, film director Anthony DiAmbrosio discovered a quiet “rebellion of hope” in the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — “Triumph of the Heart,” a new film about St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who gave his life in Auschwitz, brings cinematic heft to Catholic storytelling while confronting ...

CNA Staff, 12 September, 2025 / 3:00 pm (ACI Africa). A new film called “Triumph of the Heart” depicts St. Maximilian Kolbe’s last days on earth in a starvation bunker in the German death camp of ...

This is the second in a series of articles written about St. Maximilian Kolbe—The Saint and Hero at Auschwitz in view of his 84th death anniversary. As St. Maximilian Kolbe’s vision for the Militia of ...

The 84th anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe—a Polish Franciscan priest who, during the Second World War, volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek (a ...

St. Maximian Kolbe, during his missionary travels to and from Japan, China and India, visted Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) in 1930, 1932 and 1933. The impressions he formed during these visits as ...

Polish actor Marcin Kwasny portrays Polish Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe in the death starvation cell at the Nazis' main Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died Aug. 14, 1941. The ...

“Poland has something special to offer the world. St Maximilian Kolbe and his fight for freedom, dignity and love amid great suffering is something the world very much needs,” said director Anthony ...