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By Catholic News Service
WORCESTER, Mass. – Bishop Robert J. McManus of Worcester pleaded not guilty May 7 at a Wakefield, R.I., courthouse to charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident. According to the Boston Globe, the bishop was released on personal recognizance after his attorney, Bill Murphy, told 4th Division District Court Judge Walter […]
Movies
Special effects trump substance in this addition to the blockbuster screen franchise adapted from a series of Marvel comics dating back to 1963. As the titular superhero’s billionaire alter ego (Robert Downey Jr.) battles a mysterious, bin Laden-like terrorist (Ben Kingsley), their conflict endangers his now live-in girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow). The range of moral and […]
Movies
A caricatured portrayal of Catholicism – via a straw-man priest (Robin Williams) and a hyper-pious South American matron (Patricia Rae) – is only the most annoying of this vulgar romantic comedy’s many defects. To protect Rae’s character – his birth mother – from the scandalous fact that his adoptive parents (Robert De Niro and Diane […]
Local
By Katie Collins
Missionhurst Father John B. Peters, who lived his vocation in service around the world, died April 16 of natural causes at the Missionhurst house in Arlington. He was 84 years old. This August would have marked his 60th year as a priest. A funeral Mass was offered by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde April 26 […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Librado Cena, director of religious education at St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, was involved in a road rage incident that turned deadly and became the first homicide in the City of Fairfax since 2008. Father David A. Whitestone, pastor of St. Leo, placed Cena on administrative leave April 18, according to Michael J. […]
Movies
The iniquity of a father is visited upon his children – more than once – in this wrenching and profound multigenerational saga directed and co-written by Derek Cianfrance. A motorcycle stuntman (Ryan Gosling) in a traveling carnival reencounters his ex-lover (Eva Mendes) who reveals they have a baby son. Determined to provide for his newfound […]
Movies
Nasty fact-based crime chronicle – set in the early 1990s – in which a trio of dimwitted bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) kidnap an abrasive but successful businessman (Tony Shalhoub) and torture him into signing over all his holdings to them. Thanks in large part to the efforts of a straight-arrow police […]
Local
By Pauline Hovey
Sources for the following include: the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Cato Institute, the Federal Reserve, the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and The Urban Institute. 1) The separation of family is a painful reality of immigration, whether through the deportation of family members or the […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
The name Flying Cows of Ventry is steeped in mystery. Tim Walthall, who along with twin brothers James and Jeff comprises the local Irish band, is cagey about the name’s roots and keeps its origins a secret. “If I tell you, I’d have to kill you,” he joked. While the flying cow part of the […]
Local
By Katie Bahr
When it comes to sharing God’s message, Gloria Purvis is not afraid to speak her mind. “I’m no shrinking violet,” she said. “I never have been.” That outgoing personality has proven to be invaluable for Purvis, a parishioner of Christ the King Church in Silver Spring, Md., who has dedicated much of her life to […]
