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By Maria-pia Negro
La Oficina de Vocaciones de Arlington quiere que más hispanos consideren si Dios los está llamando al sacerdocio o la vida religiosa. Y es que para una diócesis donde la comunidad hispana forma el 40 por ciento de la población católica, hay muy pocos religiosos hispanos pastoreando la comunidad. “Quién puede servir a la comunidad […]
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Convoluted science fiction epic begins with a technician (Tom Cruise) and his navigator (Andrea Riseborough) tending machinery on an abandoned, post-apocalyptic Earth so that the planet’s natural resources can continue to be harvested for the human refugees who now inhabit Saturn’s moon Titan. The unexpected arrival of a space traveler (Olga Kurylenko) from an earlier […]
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Shoddy genre satire replete with childish gross-out humor and demeaning sex gags. The sketchy plot, principally lifted from Andy Muschietti’s horror film “Mama,” finds a couple (Ashley Tisdale and Simon Rex) adopting his two young nieces and baby nephew after the orphaned – and now feral – kids spent months isolated in a cabin in […]
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Repulsive reboot of Sam Raimi’s horror trilogy that began with 1981’s “The Evil Dead.” A group of young adults (most prominently Jane Levy and Shiloh Fernandez as siblings) gathered in a remote cabin have a devil of a time after one of them (Lou Taylor Pucci) unwittingly summons a demon by reciting an ancient hex […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – All of the baptized and not just the clergy are called to spread the Gospel, even in times of persecution, Pope Francis said in his morning homily April 17. The pope spoke at Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the Vatican guesthouse where he has been living since his […]
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By Joseph Austin Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – When a team of health officials and investigators looking into illegal drug use raided Dr. Kermit Barron Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society Feb. 18, 2010, they happened upon what many are calling a “house of horrors.”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P> </p><p><P style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt” class=Body><FONT size=3><FONT face=”Utopia Std”>”There was blood […]
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A bizarre theme park featuring genetically re-created dinosaurs becomes a potential deathtrap when the carnivorous monsters break loose, endangering some visiting scientists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum) and two very frightened young children (Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards). Director Steven Spielberg’s monster fantasy downplays plot and characterization in favor of spectacle and horrific […]
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By Father Kenneth Doyle
Q. I have noticed that the casket of a veteran is no longer draped with an American flag at the funeral Mass. Why not? The service of these men and women helps provide the freedom of worship that we all enjoy. Why does the church no longer honor that? (Daly City, Calif.) A. The Order […]
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By Maria-pia Negro
Last year, Emily Borman stumbled upon an anonymous column in the Sunday bulletin from St. John the Beloved Church in McLean. The column featured testimonials of women talking about how they lived and struggled with the church’s teaching on natural family planning and women’s vocation. “When do we ever talk about this? When do we […]
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By Katie Collins
Ann Patricia, “Pat,” deLadurantaye, a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal and mother of Father Paul F. deLadurantaye, diocesan secretary for religious education and sacred liturgy, died April 2 of lung cancer. She was 81 years old. Her husband of 57 years, Deacon Robert E. deLadurantaye, died in February. A wake […]
