Comic - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:33:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Comic - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Churches should make people laugh more often https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/11/29/churches-make-people-laugh/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:33:41 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=142908 Standup comics hunt for laughter, not applause. A laugh is involuntary; clapping is not. The element of surprise - to which a laugh is a reaction - takes us beyond our sets of ideologies and expectations.—And this is a vital part of what churches are called to do. The lack of it partially explains why Read more

Churches should make people laugh more often... Read more]]> Standup comics hunt for laughter, not applause. A laugh is involuntary; clapping is not.

The element of surprise - to which a laugh is a reaction - takes us beyond our sets of ideologies and expectations.—And this is a vital part of what churches are called to do. The lack of it partially explains why they so often fail.

Maybe churches should learn a lesson from the comics. Read more (scroll down)

 

Churches should make people laugh more often]]> 142908 Batman was probably a Catholic https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/11/09/batman-catholic/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:20:08 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=101824 Batman was probably a Catholic. "No Protestant ever suffered guilt the way Bruce Wayne does," says a DC Comics writer. Click here to see some of the many Catholic comic book heroes and villains listed on a website dedicated to studying the religion of comic book characters

Batman was probably a Catholic... Read more]]> Batman was probably a Catholic. "No Protestant ever suffered guilt the way Bruce Wayne does," says a DC Comics writer.

Click here to see some of the many Catholic comic book heroes and villains listed on a website dedicated to studying the religion of comic book characters

Batman was probably a Catholic]]> 101824 Pope Francis comic book becomes an App https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/02/14/pope-francis-comic-book-becomes-app/ Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:12:06 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=54341 The success of a kids' comic book about Pope Francis has prompted its Italian publisher to turn it into an iPad App for the English-speaking world. Called "Pope Francis Comics," the app offers a kid-friendly mini-bio of the Argentine pontiff and 13 catchy phrases based on tweets or speeches by the pope. Kids can test Read more

Pope Francis comic book becomes an App... Read more]]> The success of a kids' comic book about Pope Francis has prompted its Italian publisher to turn it into an iPad App for the English-speaking world.

Called "Pope Francis Comics," the app offers a kid-friendly mini-bio of the Argentine pontiff and 13 catchy phrases based on tweets or speeches by the pope. Kids can test how well they remember the messages with a fill-in-the-blank and coloring game.

There is also a full-color, eight-page comic book meant for older adolescents. Continue reading

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