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What does persecution look like?   In Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian film “Brazil,” there is a scene where diners at a restaurant casually continue eating their meals while a terrorist bomb explodes nearby, taking out another table of diners. The scene has often come back to me as I look at what our society increasingly […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Catholics joined Pope Francis and the rest of the world in expressing sorrow for those killed and severely injured in the latest terrorist attacks in London June 3.   “The vigil of Pentecost had barely begun when the world was burdened yet again, this time by the sinister attacks on innocent men […]
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, of Galveston-Houston, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued the following statement following last night’s terror attack which has left seven people dead and at least 48 injured. This is the third terrorist attack on British soil in as many months. “The Vigil of Pentecost had barely begun […]
Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge has released the following statement on the June 3 attacks in London: The horrific attacks in London and the ongoing violence throughout our world sadly remind us of the urgent need to pray daily and fervently for God’s peace in every land and nation. May the Lord grant eternal life […]

Enjoyable adventure for the DC Comics superhero (Gal Gadot) takes her from her home environment — an island of Amazons isolated from the rest of the world — into the thick of World War I. Her involvement in the conflict follows the accidental intrusion of an American (Chris Pine) who's spying for the British into her native realm, an event she takes as a signal that her race is being called to bring peace to humanity.

An excess of scatological humor as well as a lack of creative drive blight this family road comedy, adapted by writer-director David Bowers from the novel by Jeff Kinney. As his family sets off on a cross-country journey to attend his great-grandmother's 90th birthday celebration, a mild-mannered middle schooler (Jason Drucker) rails against his mom's (Alicia Silverstone) ban on the use of electronics during the trip -- a prohibition his overworked father (Tom Everett Scott) likewise finds it difficult to obey.

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