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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. We have been told that when we go to heaven we will have a “beatific vision” of God. This has always baffled me. What do those words mean? (Oneonta, N.Y.) A. The “beatific vision” means the eternal and direct visual perception of God. It means seeing God face to face. We have some sense, […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Excited students ran from Holy Spirit Church in Annandale last Friday to Holy Spirit School where they sat on the gym floor waiting for the day’s instructions. It was the last day of Vacation Bible School and energy levels were high. The theme for the weeklong program was “Winning the World for Jesus.” Classes concentrated […]
Movies
Coarse comedy celebrates a morally impaired middle-school teacher (Cameron Diaz) bent on landing a rich husband. Foul-mouthed, slatternly, racist, and conniving, she sets her sights on a new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake) while feuding with one full-time colleague (Lucy Punch) and rejecting the attentions of another (Jason Segel). Working from a script by Gene Stupnitsky […]
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In director John Lasseter’s winsome – and equally family-friendly – sequel to 2006’s “Cars,” some of the anthropomorphic vehicles of the first feature depart Route 66 for an around-the-world adventure as a veteran racecar (voice of Owen Wilson) accepts a challenge to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix across three countries. With his best […]
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Mediocre comic book adaptation, directed by Martin Campbell, in which a devil-may-care test pilot (Ryan Reynolds) is endowed with superhuman powers and joins the ranks of an elite force of intergalactic warriors. Opposing the flyboy is a biology professor (Peter Sarsgaard) whose accidental infection with super-villain negative energy offers him the chance to act on […]
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Writer-director J.J. Abrams ably blends nostalgia, drama and sci-fi thrills as he travels back to 1979 Ohio where a half-dozen youthful film enthusiasts (most prominently Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney and Riley Griffiths) use the local railroad station as a set for the endearingly amateur zombie flick they hope to enter in a local festival. But […]
Movies
This 3-D animated musical re-imagines the events of the first Holy Week through the adventures of a bunch of wisecracking animals. At the center of the tale is a spunky lamb (voice of Georgina Cordova) chosen as the Passover sacrifice because he is pure and unblemished. On the way to Jerusalem, he busts out of […]
Local
By Katie Bahr
It’s Flag Day in Kilmarnock and a group of local Catholics have gathered to pay their respects. Led by a group of men from the Infant Jesus of Prague Council of the Knights of Columbus, a crowd of nearly 30 adults and children process from the church to the parish hall across the street. A […]
Global
By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola as the new head of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy’s largest diocese. Cardinal Scola, 69, has been patriarch of Venice since 2002. A respected theologian, he developed a reputation in Venice as an energetic pastor, raising the church’s profile in the civil arena. […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Father John Corapi, a priest of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, declared June 17 he was leaving the priesthood, contending he could not get a “fair hearing” on misconduct allegations that were lodged against him in March and which included what the priest said were sexual abuse charges. […]
