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Campus musical in which a college student (Anna Kendrick) joins an all-female a cappella group that’s on track to compete in an annual competition. Along the way to the singing showdown, she clashes with the ensemble’s traditionally minded leader (Anna Camp) and finds romance with a fellow music lover (Skylar Astin), despite his membership in […]
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A potentially salient critique of the nation’s political process gets buried under a landslide of vulgarity and sex jokes in this comedy from director Jay Roach. With the career of a longtime North Carolina congressman (Will Ferrell) endangered after he misdirects an obscene phone call intended for his mistress, the two wealthy brothers who were […]
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With an asteroid on course to obliterate all life on Earth within a few weeks, a soft-spoken conformist (Steve Carell) and his free-spirited, British-born neighbor (Keira Knightley) set off on a road trip. He wants to reconnect with his high-school sweetheart, while she hopes to find transport back to England (all airline flights have been […]
Movies
By John Mulderig
NEW YORK – Though presumably targeted – at least in part – at teens, the dystopian adventure “The Hunger Games” (Lionsgate) involves enough problematic content to give parents pause. Responsible oldsters will want to weigh the matter carefully before giving permission for clamoring kids to attend. At first glance, the depressing futuristic premise of the […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – School-choice initiatives – akin to the quiet students in the back of a classroom – have kept a relatively low profile in recent years while steadily working their way to the front. The movement was given a big boost in late March when the Indiana Supreme Court upheld one of the country’s most […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – One U.S. Catholic bishop hailed the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland as “a courageous step toward a culture of life.” The comment, by Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, was issued May 2, the day Maryland Gov. Martin […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
MANILA, Philippines – Authorities announced that at least 24 “penitents” are expected to be nailed on the cross on Good Friday, an annual ritual meant to atone for sins and give thanks to God for blessings. But the country’s Catholic bishops warned the faithful against resorting to extreme forms of sacrifice on Good Friday, including […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Ben Stahlberg always wondered what was involved in choosing a pope. A senior lecturer in religious studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., Stahlberg was raised Jewish, but made plenty of Catholic friends as a child when his family lived in Kennebunk, Maine. So Catholicism and the papacy are not totally foreign to […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – The Clementine Hall is traditionally the place where cardinals bid farewell to popes at the end of a pontificate, but usually when the pope in question is lying in state before his funeral. But on Feb. 28, hours before resigning from the papacy, Pope Benedict XVI briefly addressed the College of Cardinals, […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service April 19, 2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 78, elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI. Dec. 22, 2005: In a meeting with top aides at the Vatican, Pope Benedict insists the teaching of the Second Vatican Council must be read in continuity with the church’s tradition. Sept. 12, 2006: In a speech […]
