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Borrowing the name but little else from the futuristic-themed section of Disneyland and other Disney parks, this delightful science-fiction film is great fun for the entire family, directed and co-written by Brad Bird. A young woman (Britt Robertson) is recruited by a mysterious robot (Raffey Cassidy) for a mission to save both Earth and the […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
“How many of you know how to use a pencil?” asked Mary Baldwin, principal of St. Andrew the Apostle School in Clifton at an all-school assembly in the parish hall May 20. Hands of children from kindergarten through eighth grade shot up in the air – stretching, wiggling, waving. After a few moments, the students […]
National
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – “Despite 50 years of ‘Nostra Aetate,'” the Second Vatican Council’s document on interreligious relations, “we still don’t know each other well enough,” said French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Speaking last week about Catholic-Muslim relations, Cardinal Tauran added, “Most of the problems we face are problems of […]
Global
By Rhina Guidos
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Some thought this day would never arrive. Others hoped and some always knew it would. On May 23, the Catholic Church beatified Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass, just a day after pleading and ordering soldiers to stop killing […]
Global
By Michael Kelly | Catholic News Service
DUBLIN – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has said the church needs a “reality check” after Irish voters overwhelmingly supported same-sex marriage. Ireland was the first country in the world to put same-sex marriage to a popular vote and the May 22 poll was backed by 62 percent of the population. Same-sex marriage is now […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The power of the Holy Spirit transforms people into bold witnesses of the Gospel, who reach out to others, exercise charity and live in harmony with creation, Pope Francis said. Celebrating Pentecost Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and reciting the “Regina Coeli” prayer with tens of thousands of people gathered in St. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said he wants to be remembered as “a good person who tried to do good. I cannot ask for anything more than that.” The statement, as well as comments about his life as pope and situations that move him to tears, were part of an interview he gave in late […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Not long after St. John XXIII’s social encyclical “Mater et Magistra” made its appearance in 1961, a wisecrack began making the rounds among Catholics who’d taken umbrage: “Mater, si; magistra, no” – mother, yes; teacher, no. In other words, the church has a maternal relationship with her members but is not their teacher on matters […]
Local
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services celebrated the annual memorial Mass honoring U.S. military personnel May 17 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The nation’s observance of Memorial Day is Monday, May 25.
Columns
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The gaze of Jesus can change a person’s life just like it did with St. Peter, Pope Francis said. “He always looks at us with love. He asks us something, he forgives us and he gives us a mission,” the pope said May 22 during his early morning Mass in the Domus […]
