Dominican Friars Launch Lenten Video Game
Timed to stoke interest in a Passiontide prayer vigil in Washington, the game features a cappa-wearing friar who scores points by converting heretics.
By: Stephen Beale
WASHINGTON — When Dominican Brother Athanasius Murphy entered the Order of Preachers, he never imagined that his mission of saving souls for Christ would include building a video game.
But that’s exactly what Brother Athanasius and a group of fellow Dominican friars have done in their spare time over the last several months — in what one of them describes as a new front in the New Evangelization.