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Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code wasn’t the first historical fiction where the history was just as fictional as the story. Émile Zola beat Brown by over a hundred years.Zola was a famous French writer and avowed atheist whose novels and other works had won popular acclaim. In 1892, he decided to write a novel about the amazing cures said to be taking place in the waters of a spring in Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary had reportedly appeared to young Bernadette Soubirous eighte …

In this excerpt from his book, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties, Trent Horn looks at how we can make sense of what seem to be inconsistencies with the Gospel narratives around the the time of the Nativity.Consider the accounts of Jesus’ birth that are found in Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels. According to critics, Matthew 2:1-23 tells us that Mary and Joseph lived in Bethlehem, where Mary gave birth to Jesus and the couple received the Magi …

We’ve seen this movie a hundred times.The man in power feels threatened and uses any means necessary to wipe out those who threaten his power.It’s a story of power, deception, subterfuge, and bloodshed, but ultimately good triumphs over evil.Only it’s not a movie – It’s the story of Herod, the Holy Family, and the Holy innocents.In this excerpt from his book Hostile Witnesses, author Gary Michuta looks at how the actions of King Herod the Great testify to Jesus be …