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By Dave Borowski
There is a religious object in Father Joel D. Jaffe’s Chancery office that you don’t usually see in a priest’s workplace. On the top shelf of a bookcase stacked with Catholic and Christian texts and pushed against a wall dotted with photographs of basilicas in Rome is a leather pouch with the Star of David […]
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By John P. Mccarthy Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – Docudramas tend to underwhelm emotionally, intellectually or both. That’s not the case with “Captain Phillips” (Columbia), a complex and compassionate film that engrosses from the start and builds inexorably toward a devastating conclusion. Prepare to be hooked. Considered alongside his 2006 project “United 93,” about the airplane that crashed into a Pennsylvania […]
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By Katie Bahr
A little more than 13 years ago, Patrick Kokorian would have described himself as a “nominal Catholic” who put his own desires ahead of his faith. After making a vow to put God’s will first, he eventually became a Maronite monk at Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Petersham, Mass. Today, Brother Patrick is counting down […]
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Cheerful animated comedy in which the young inventor (voice of Bill Hader) of a machine that turns water into food learns from his idol, a famed scientist and corporate guru (voice of Will Forte), that the device, which he thought had been disabled, has continued to function and is now producing animals made out of […]
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes, directs and stars in this comedy about an Italian Catholic bartender in suburban New Jersey whose addiction to pornography threatens to undermine his budding romance with the bridge-and-tunnel bombshell of his dreams (Scarlett Johansson). Despite perceptible good intentions – limited moral guidance is provided by an earthy older woman (Julianne Moore) the […]
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By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK (CNS) – Here is a list of recent films that Catholic News Service has rated on the basis of moral suitability. The first symbol after each title is the Catholic News Service classification. The second symbol is the rating of the Motion Picture Association of America. CNS classifications: A-I – general patronage; A-II […]
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Slick but forgettable cautionary tale in which a ruined Wall Street executive-turned-graduate student (Justin Timberlake) is recruited by a charismatic online-gambling tycoon (Ben Affleck) to help administer the mogul’s burgeoning, Costa Rica-based betting empire. As the lad becomes increasingly disillusioned with his new mentor’s shady ways, an FBI agent (Anthony Mackie) pressures him to collect […]
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The 1976 Formula One racing season provides the backdrop for this fact-based drama about the rivalry between its two leading drivers: freewheeling British playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and obsessively disciplined Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl). Hunt’s dissolute ways, only somewhat muted by his marriage to high-profile model Suzy Miller (Olivia Wilde), draw his relentlessly […]
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By Maria-pia Negro
Detective Bill Woolf Jr., a member of the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force and Gang Investigation Unit, has added more responsibilities to his already-packed schedule. He goes to schools and churches to talk about human trafficking – a growing problem affecting young people in Northern Virginia. Human trafficking is a $32 billion industry that […]
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By Dave Borowski
The Bible, in passages like Proverbs 16:31, glorifies old age. “Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by a life that is just.” But aging can bring physical and emotional challenges, and churches are positioned to help seniors adjust to those challenges, including end-of-life issues. On Sept. 26, nearly 100 Catholic Charities […]
