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By Maria-pia Negro
“Lord, Teach Me To Pray,” a three-part prayer series rooted in St. Ignatius of Loyola spirituality, will offer a training retreat at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean Sept. 7 for anyone who wants to co-facilitate small prayer groups for men and women at their parishes. The series originated in New Orleans about 12 […]
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By Father Kenneth Doyle
Q. In a book about the Shroud of Turin, I read that when Jesus was crucified, the nails were driven through his wrists. The photos of the shroud seem to confirm this. But if that were so, then why did saints such as St. Francis and Padre Pio have stigmata wounds on the palms of […]
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Writer-director Woody Allen presents a variation on Tennessee Williams’ classic play “A Streetcar Named Desire” in this depressing tale of a Park Avenue socialite (Cate Blanchett in a bravura performance) fallen on hard times. She’s lost everything due to her philandering husband’s (Alec Baldwin) Ponzi-like fraud which has not only destroyed the fortunes of his […]
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Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s dystopian action picture, set in the mid-22nd century, envisions a society divided between a despoiled Earth populated by oppressed workers and the idyllic satellite of the title where the rich live a life of ease — and enjoy miraculous medical technology. After a workplace accident exposes him to a lethal dose of […]
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This history of the fluctuating fortunes of Steve Jobs, founder of the Apple computer empire, may not be the worst film biography of all time, but it certainly earns an unenviable place in the pantheon of lame screen profiles. Ashton Kutcher, directed by Joshua Michael Stern from a script by Matt Whiteley, portrays Jobs as […]
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This gory, vulgar action-and-comedy sequel aims for laughs as it reunites two youthful would-be superheroes (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz) and pits them against the exultantly evil son (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) of the last outing’s primary villain. Despite dialogue ostensibly exploring the nature of heroism and the morality of do-it-yourself law enforcement, writer-director Jeff Wadlow’s […]
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The personal collides with the political in this affecting fact-based drama adapted by director Lee Daniels from a 2008 Washington Post article by reporter Wil Haygood. Escaping the vicious racism of the early 20th-century Deep South, a plantation worker (Forest Whitaker) makes his way to Washington, where he eventually finds coveted employment on the domestic […]
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Fundamentally moral but dramatically stale thriller about a professionally thwarted computer whiz kid (Liam Hemsworth) whose envy-driven ambition gets him caught up in the cutthroat rivalry between two former partners (Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford) who now head competing tech corporations. Sent by one to steal the game-changing product the other is about to launch, […]
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By Dave Borowski
Pope Francis called them “missionaries of God’s love and tenderness.” Confraternities – groups of Catholic laity bound together by faith – have existed since the early days of the church. Over the years these groups, under ecclesiastical authority, have worked to promote acts of piety and charity. According to Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Catholic […]
