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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Although the benefits of exercise are endless, many people simply do not find or make the time to keep fit. Health reports and doctors’ advice can’t seem to stress enough how regular exercise can reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, back pain and osteoporosis along with improving […]
Arts
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Paul Loong was determined to survive the POW camps where he was held by the Japanese for three years. While imprisoned, Loong kept a journal that had a chance of surviving him if he never made it out alive. But Loong did. And he made his way to the United States, got married […]
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By Marylynn G. Hewitt Catholic News Service
DETROIT (CNS) – Although it’s a standard wedding scene in movies, there’s a good reason why you won’t hear the phrase: “With this ring, I thee wed” at a Catholic marriage ceremony. “You are wed by your promise” and not by the exchange of rings, said Father Joseph Gagnon, a senior priest in the Detroit […]
Movies
Ethan Hawke plays a famed true-crime writer who moves his wife (Juliet Rylance) and two kids (Michael Hall D’Addario and Clare Foley) from their Connecticut mansion to a rambling Pennsylvania ranch house thinking he can solve an old murder that took place on the property. Instead he finds himself trapped in the vortex of an […]
Movies
Remake of the 1976 melodrama about a girl trio, set in 1968 Detroit, manages to be both as predictably familiar as your grandmother’s living room and as subtle as a runaway freight train. But the charisma of the performers and the consistently expressed desire of all the principal characters to lead moral lives hold the […]
Movies
Sporadically funny, but excessively vulgar comedy charting the long-standing friendship between a slacker car rental agent (Mark Wahlberg) and the teddy bear (voice of Seth MacFarlane) his childhood wish miraculously brought to life. When their bond is tested by tensions surrounding the wastrel’s romance with his live-in girlfriend (Mila Kunis), the party-loving plush toy proves […]
Movies
Framed for the murder of a fellow operative, a late-21st-century CIA agent (Guy Pearce) is offered a reprieve if he rescues the president’s (Peter Hudson) daughter (Maggie Grace) who’s been taken hostage by rioting prisoners during a goodwill tour of an orbiting penitentiary. Logical lapses are papered over with macho posturing and wisecracks in directors […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The “pope’s newspaper” is a paper of information and ideas at the service of truth and justice, Pope Benedict XVI said. L’Osservatore Romano, therefore, must continue to put focus on important issues of the day like bioethics and on women’s perspectives, ecumenism and relations with Jews, the pope said. The pope praised […]
National
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – After running afoul of the courts yet again, the Federal Communications Commission is taking another stab at rewriting its regulations on indecent content on over-the-air television and radio. Whether the regulations need to be rewritten, though, is another matter entirely. The FCC has sustained its court losses in trying to fine networks for […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
ROME – The first of Rome’s four major basilicas to receive a visit from Pope Francis after his election March 13 was not the closest one, St. Peter’s, which sits under the “Loggia of the Blessings” from which the new pontiff first appeared to the world. Instead, at 8 the next morning, in a gesture […]
