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In this fable that draws on both Christian and wiccan imagery, an infertile couple (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) bury their written hopes for the perfect child in a cardboard box in their backyard. The next morning, a partially vine-covered boy (CJ Adams) precisely matching their description appears, and proceeds to change their lives in […]
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Change is in the air in 1950s Catholic Ireland, and a discontented parish priest (Martin Sheen) struggles to keep his flock – and himself – from spiritual exhaustion in director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s adaptation of Michael Doorley’s memoir. Ordered by his bishop (Tom Hickey) to build a new church, the pastor lights on a novel scheme […]
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This endearing wildlife documentary, set in the Ivory Coast’s lush Tai Forest, follows the fortunes of a young chimp named Oscar as he, his devoted mother and the entire extended clan with whom they live become caught up in a turf war with a rival band of simians. Though co-directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield’s […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
MILAN – As Pope Benedict XVI closed the World Meeting of Families in Italy’s capital of finance and fashion, he opened the possibility of his heading to the United States when he named the Archdiocese of Philadelphia the next venue of the world gathering. “God willing,” he said, he would attend in 2015 as he […]
National
By Joseph Austin Catholic News Service
FAIRFAX – A diverse group of young college women lounged on couches at the entrance of the George Mason University Student Union on a recent afternoon. Ninoska Moratin, a campus missionary with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, better known as FOCUS, entreated the students to review their week as she began the Bible study. […]
National
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
SELBYVILLE, Del. – There’s no mistaking Sister Agnes Oman’s Irish heritage, even after decades in the United States. If her coloring and her accent didn’t give her away, her way of describing her ministry would – she tells one story after another. Mostly, the stories she told for Catholic News Service May 1 in the […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – In an austerity move like those being taken by governments around the world, the Vatican will not pay its employees a bonus marking the March 13 election of Pope Francis but will instead make a donation to charity. “In the past, on the occasion of the start of a pontificate, a bonus […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – Thousands of people who gathered at one end of the National Mall March 26 in support of traditional marriage took their message to the U.S. Supreme Court as they walked and held aloft placards with signs saying: “Kids do best with a mom and dad.” The court began hearing oral arguments that morning […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Citing a distinguished German theologian and an anonymous elderly penitent from Argentina, Pope Francis told an overflow crowd in St. Peter’s Square never to despair of God’s mercy to sinners. “The Lord never tires of forgiving,” the pope said March 17, before leading his listeners in praying the midday Angelus. “It is […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In 1989, Bishop Sean P. O’Malley of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, flew to the neighboring island of St. Croix to stay with a priest unable to evacuate before a pending storm. The storm – Hurricane Hugo – whipped through the Caribbean and devastated St. Croix. When it was over, the bishop was out […]
