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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – With a hymn and a prayer, Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella presented the Vatican’s initial calendar of events for the Year of Faith, which begins with a Mass Oct. 11 in St. Peter’s Square. Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, said the pope has invited as concelebrants bishops […]
Movies
Vengeance story set in the near and distant future, involving a group of assassins, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has to give chase when his next victim is his future self, played by Bruce Willis. Director-writer Rian Johnson has produced a mix of science fiction and old-time Western that looks to have been concocted by a […]
Movies
Woody Allen writes, directs and stars in this picturesque but morally misguided romp through the Eternal City, featuring a confusing quartet of stories about the search for romance, happiness and – all too frequently – sin. A retired opera director (Allen) discovers a potential star in the person of an undertaker (Fabio Armiliato) who only […]
Movies
Heavy-metal musical romance – set in 1987 – in which an aspiring singer (Julianne Hough), newly arrived in Los Angeles, finds work as a waitress in a headbangers’ nightclub and falls for a bartender (Diego Boneta) in the same establishment who has show biz ambitions of his own. Plot complications involve the bar owner’s (Alec […]
Movies
Scattershot, sometimes earthy comedy in which a mild-mannered Boston zoo attendant (Kevin James, who also co-wrote the script) discovers that the animals under his care (voiced by an ensemble that includes Nick Nolte and Adam Sandler) can communicate with him. Their “Wild Kingdom”-style mating advice, however, does little to help him recognize that a caring […]
National
By Fr. William J. Byron, Sj
“Final Bells for 49” read the inch-high headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer over a front-page story announcing school closings in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. “Grief and Anger” was the next-day headline on the front page over the follow-up story. Four Catholic high schools will be closed; 45 parish elementary schools will shutter or merge. Drops […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
At the 123rd annual commencement of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivered an address that focused on selflessness and the vigorous defense of religious, specifically Catholic, values and teachings. In beginning his address, Cardinal Dolan mentioned that he had […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – If a person’s prayer life is boring, that generally means that he or she is focused too much on the self and not enough on Jesus and the needs of others, Pope Francis said during a morning Mass homily. “True prayer leads us out of ourselves toward the Father in the name […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Not every bishop gets, at his episcopal ordination, a color guard from both the Knights of Columbus and the U.S. military. Nor do they get both “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “The Navy Hymn” sung at the ordination Mass. But when you are newly ordained for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, as Bishop […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden and Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The eight cardinals named by Pope Francis to begin work on ways to reorganize the Roman Curia are predominantly active archbishops of very large archdioceses, but they also have a wide range of pastoral and organizational experiences and skills. The Vatican announced the members of the group April 13. The eight are: […]
