Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel to a Rome prison to open a Holy Door as a “tangible sign of the message of hope” for people in prisons around the world, the Vatican announced.

Donn Fendler’s story is recounted in the restrained dramatization “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” (Blue Fox). Though the lad’s experience was a harrowing one, this look back at it is ultimately a life-affirming tale about the power of perseverance.

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Holy Cross Father David Guffey, national director and head of production at Family Theater Productions about the work it produces, and about a new film that will begin airing in November on PBS stations, “Playing Like a Girl: The House that Rob Built.”

Pope Francis’ new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is being hailed as “a simple and powerful cure” for a fractured world, said the president of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference — and that sentiment was echoed by other experts on devotion to the Sacred Heart.

Members of the Synod of Bishops experienced a new way of being church and are committing to sharing it, said the two cardinals who guided its work.