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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has named Bishop Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas to head the Vatican’s new office for laity, family and life. The Dublin-born bishop will celebrate his 69th birthday Sept. 2, the day after the new Vatican office officially begins its work. In a statement a few hours after his appointment was […]
Schools
By Meredith Husar
Surrounded by her children, grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Donaldson opened a manila envelope handed to her by Emily Gerke. She slowly pulled out a small towel with “Home is where our story begins” printed on it in swirling cursive letters. As she unfolded it, more messages appeared – all handwritten. Her eyes darted across […]
Arts
Writer-director Woody Allen’s seriocomic look at romance follows a Depression-era Bronx lad (Jesse Eisenberg) to Los Angeles, where he gets a job with his uncle (Steve Carell), a powerful Hollywood agent. But when his relationship with the agent’s lissome secretary (Kristen Stewart) leads to disillusionment, he returns to New York to manage a new nightclub […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
It’s that time of year in the life of a family when calendar squares begin to fill. Pencils in hand (because things change and it’s not quite time for pens yet), we grid in the soccer schedule, the “first day of” dates, the fall birthdays, the auditions, the new lessons. When finished, we stare in […]
Movies
Weak fifth installment in the animated franchise for children finds the good-hearted but overprotective father (voice of Ray Romano) of a family of wooly mammoths leading his levelheaded wife (voice of Queen Latifah), sunny daughter (voiced by Keke Palmer) and soon-to-be son-in-law (voice of Adam Devine) on an unlikely quest: They’re out to use magnetic […]
Movies
This teen-geared drama starts with an intriguing premise: an online game in which viewers pay to watch players fulfill real-life dares in exchange for significant sums of money. Yet, as a straitlaced New York City high school senior (Emma Roberts) tries to shake her reputation for conformity by participating, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s […]
Local
Aug. 15 is the feast of the Assumption, which commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into heaven. Because the feast falls on a Monday this year, the holy day obligation is abrogated, or temporarily waived, for U.S. Catholics of the Latin rite. The holy day obligation requires the faithful to participate in […]
Movies
The 13th big-screen outing for the sci-fi franchise that began as a TV series in the 1960s is, overall, a rousing and rambunctious 3-D adventure. Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) of the Starship Enterprise and his crew (including Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Karl Urban) respond to a distress call in a remote part […]
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By Connor Bergeron
A crowd gathered at the Mount Vernon Knights of Columbus council hall in Alexandria last month to hear Bishop Emeritus Macram Max Gassis, exiled bishop of the El Obeid Diocese in Sudan. He painted a landscape that pained him to tell; his homeland is a nightmare. Bombings, genocide, slavery, rape, civil war and Christian persecution […]
The golden door