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Catholic business owners find ways to stay open, or deal with the fallout of shutting down.
During this time when everyone is home and may need something uplifting, spiritual or funny to keep their minds off the coronavirus pandemic, the staff of the Catholic Herald offers you our top 10 favorite movies with a touch of religion or a message of faith.
With co-founder Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day in 1933 set up the Catholic Worker Movement, the Catholic Worker newspaper and the first of a series of emergency shelters for the poorest of the poor of the Depression-ravaged streets of New York City. Over the next nearly 50 years, Day would become an activist and gadfly to the rich and powerful, and she remains a paradox for many Catholics 40 years after her death in 1980. A good deal of that mystery has been reconsidered in a new full-length biography, "Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century" by co-authors John Loughery and Blythe Randolph.
Online becomes the new playground and classroom during the coronavirus pandemic.
With parents and kids alike sheltering in place, moms and dads may be on the lookout for entertainment that will hold children's attention. Following is a roundup of some programming aimed at little ones that's available on major streaming platforms.
Well-crafted but distinctly partisan documentary examining the impact of gerrymandering on American politics. Filmmakers Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance use the struggle of a Michigan group called Voters Not Politicians, founded by political novice Katie Fahey, to end the practice in that state as the starting point for a wide-ranging exploration of the history and current status of the activity, with particular focus on North Carolina and Wisconsin.
Polish production in which director Jan Komasa and screenwriter Mateusz Pacewicz, who reworked his fact-based book, tell the grim story of a young man (Bartosz Bielenia), just paroled from a violent juvenile detention facility, who, having found his faith there as an altar server, aspires to become a priest. But his past makes this impossible and he's assigned instead to work in a sawmill in a remote community.
NEW YORK — The following are capsule reviews from Catholic News Service of new and recent video releases available on DVD and/or Blu-ray — as well as for online viewing. Theatrical movies have a Catholic News Service classification and Motion Picture Association rating. These classifications refer only to the theatrical version of the films below, and do not take into account any extra content.
All of a sudden, I’ve found myself home-schooling my three children while working from home. Fortunately, this is not my first time. In fact, this year was my children’s first year attending school; I’ve home-schooled for five. I’d like to share a few ideas to help with this transition.
Rectory live chats are just one of the ways local pastors are reaching out to their parishioners in new ways to keep parish life going during the coronavirus pandemic. Sacred Heart livestreams Sunday Masses and Eucharistic adoration throughout the night, organizes a phone tree for shut-ins and offers drive-in adoration with the Eucharist on display in the window.
