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Fast-moving, intensely silly 3-D adventure picks up where the last film in the Madagascar franchise left off, with Alex the lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (voice of Chris Rock), and pals Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo trying to return to New York City by refurbishing a European circus. Co-directors Eric […]
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Delightfully innocent, predominantly animated adaptation in which the immortal bear (voice of Jim Cummings) finds his characteristic quest for honey interrupted by his friend Eeyore’s (voice of Bud Luckey) latest crisis – the downcast donkey has lost his tail – and by a misunderstanding that leads all the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood (voiced, […]
Schools
By Catholic News Service
BOSTON – Education, an important apostolate with the framework of the Society of Jesus, “must ensure the development of the entire person and of all people,” Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi told a Boston gathering of Jesuit educators from around the globe July 31. Education must “look to the good of everyone and not just of […]
National
By Christina Leslie
TRENTON, N.J. – In the parable of the sower, Jesus taught his disciples that God’s word must be nurtured to yield a fruitful harvest, words that four members of the Briant family – sisters – have taken to heart. Alison Briant Burley, Ellen Briant Reilly, and Susan and Katelyn Briant are Catholic educators. Their parents, […]
Schools
By Catholic News Service
MILWAUKEE – Msgr. Ross Shecterle has been selected as the new president-rector of Sacred Heart School of Theology, the graduate seminary in Franklin. He replaces Msgr. Jan de Jong, a Sacred Heart priest and president-rector of the seminary since 2008 who is retiring at the end of June. Msgr. Shecterle, a priest of the Archdiocese […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Although it has taken more than 400 years, the sainthood cause of Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci, the 16th-century missionary to China, appears to be back on track. Bishop Claudio Giuliodori, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Macerata, Italy, where Father Ricci was born in 1552, formally closed the diocesan phase of the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family and the official promoter of the sainthood cause of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, said the process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain Salvadoran archbishop has been unblocked. Archbishop Paglia, who has been the postulator of Archbishop […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis responded to the bombings in Boston by invoking peace for the souls of the departed, consolation for the suffering and strength for emergency and medical personnel. In a message sent to Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said Pope Francis was “deeply grieved by the loss of […]
Global
By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – On the evening of July 4, 1976, Rodolfo Capalozza, then a seminarian in Argentina for the Pallottine religious community in Buenos Aires, made a fateful decision to catch a movie and then visit his parents. In the morning, Capalozza would learn that two other seminarians and three priests from the community […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Hugo Chavez, a socialist president who transformed Venezuela while acting as chief protagonist in what was one of the worst Catholic Church-government relationships in Latin America, died March 5. He was 58. Chavez died of complications from a respiratory infection nearly two years and four surgeries after his cancer diagnosis […]
