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By Karen Osborne Catholic News Service
I have a new hero. Her name is Malala Yousafzai, and she’s a 14-year-old girl from Pakistan. When she was 11, the Taliban took power in her valley. They enforced a harsh set of laws on the residents, among them, an edict that girls could no longer attend school. They threatened girls’ teachers and burned […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Although she was never canonized, St. Hildegard of Bingen is to be added to the Catholic Church’s formal list of saints, and Catholics worldwide may celebrate her feast day with a Mass and special readings by order of Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican announced May 10 that the pope formalized the church’s […]
Arts
By Adam Shaw
NEW YORK – Even as people across the nation continue to mourn the children and teachers who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the question of what drove killer Adam Lanza to commit such a horrific crime is already being debated. Violent video games were cited as an aggravating factor by some […]
Movies
Sluggishly unfolding action adventure in which an ordinary businessman (Henry Cavill) unexpectedly finds himself caught up in the world of espionage after his family is kidnapped during a vacation in Spain and he learns that his father (Bruce Willis), whom he believed to be a cultural attache, is in fact a CIA agent. As he […]
Movies
Top-notch choreography gets lost amid half-baked political posturing and self-indulgent sentimentality in first-time director Scott Speer’s dance sequel. The hackneyed plot of this fourth installment in the franchise — which began with 2006’s “Step Up” — focuses on a Miami urbanite (Ryan Guzman) who, together with his best friend since childhood (Misha Gabriel), leads a […]
Movies
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 […]
Movies
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 […]
