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Flawed, but fundamentally moral, mix of comedy and drama in which Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a long-married couple who have gradually grown physically and emotionally distant. At her insistence, they set off from their home in suburban Omaha, Neb., to Maine for a week of intensive therapy with a marriage counselor and […]
Movies
The 16th president of the United States uses his trusty ax to split a lot more than rails in this goofy mash-up of American history, directed by Timur Bekmambetov from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith (based on his 2010 novel). Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) vows revenge after his mother is killed by a vampire’s bite. Trained […]
Movies
By John Mulderig Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – A thinking person’s road movie, “The Way” (Producers Distribution Agency /ARC) follows a quartet of central characters along the ancient pilgrimage route from France to the Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela, even as it conducts viewers through a reflective, and ultimately rewarding, exploration of elemental themes. Writer-director Emilio Estevez’s drama challenges […]
Schools
By Chelsea Weikart Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The pro-life issue “is one of most important issues our culture faces” and “we thought the time had come for someone to take it as serious as math or science or English,” said one of the developers of a new curriculum with that aim. Camille Pauley is co-founder and president of Healing the […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In dealing with several serious issues confronting the church and society today, “the only question is how you respond, not whether you should,” said Helen Alvare at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held May 9 in Washington. The response Alvare suggested to her audience: “As our leader (Pope Francis) is fearless, let us […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Kim Daniels has been hired by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to serve as the spokeswoman for New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, USCCB president. Daniels most recently served as one of two directors of Catholic Voices USA, started last year. The group’s website said its mission was “to put the church’s […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took a group of white Alabama clergymen to task for suggesting he find ways, other than demonstrations and protests, to seek racial equality. The civil rights leader did not mince words telling the group that included Protestant pastors, a rabbi and a Catholic bishop […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Continuing to invite Vatican employees to morning Mass, Pope Francis told the head of the Vatican health service and members of the photography staff of the Vatican newspaper to keep in mind throughout Holy Week just how patient God is. “The patience of God is a mystery,” Pope Francis said in his […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ episcopal motto is based on the Gospel account of “The Call of St. Matthew,” the tax collector, in a homily given by St. Bede the Venerable. The pope may completely change, slightly alter or keep his episcopal coat of arms and motto for his papal coat of arms. But the […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Christian leaders, including representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called on President Barack Obama and congressional leaders of both parties to end the fiscal brinksmanship and find a budget solution that protects the poorest Americans. In a Feb. 25 letter, the religious leaders urged the political leaders to “frame the budget […]
