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A mask making effort across the Arlington diocese garners hundreds of masks for organizations such as Catholic Charities, a free clinic, and the Catholic Herald staff also received a few.
Copies of the Catholic Herald are available in boxes outside metro stops in Falls Church, Clarendon, Courthouse, Pentagon City and Crystal City. Get the scoop on the latest news and updates across the diocese, and how local Catholics are responding amid the pandemic.
We live in such difficult times. For more than a century the world has not seen a global health crisis of this magnitude. So many are sick, and some don’t even know they are sick, many are in the hospital and so many have died — often alone, without family members to comfort them. The future is so uncertain. When, if ever, will things get back to normal or, as they say, “the new normal” — whatever that means.
Security. Safety. Safekeeping. The human craving for protection against harm is universal and reaches its anxiety-ridden peak in the face of an invasive threat like the coronavirus. Intensive media coverage heightens the sense of impending doom. Granting that, however, some responses to the desire for security strike me as attempts to exploit the public mood.
The following are capsule reviews from Catholic News Service of new and recent video releases available on DVD and/or Blu-ray — as well as for online viewing. Theatrical movies have a Catholic News Service classification and Motion Picture Association rating. These classifications refer only to the theatrical version of the films below, and do not take into account any extra content.
After a witch who preys on children takes possession of the wife and mother (Zarah Mahler) next door, endangering her little boy (Blane Crockarell), a teen (John-Paul Howard) who has just moved in with his father (Jamison Jones) as his parents prepare to divorce struggles to combat the evil sorceress, aided by the co-worker (Piper Curda) with whom he's smitten.
Brutal reimagining of the life and legacy of Australia's famous 19th-century outlaw, Ned Kelly, played in childhood by Orlando Schwerdt and as an adult by George MacKay.
In the silence of the Cathedral of Christ the King, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer was installed May 6 as leader of the 1.2 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, telling believers they must care for each other without limit.
With a stronger point of view, the documentary "Spaceship Earth" (Neon), might have pointed out that its subject, the two-year experiment called Biosphere 2, never came close to producing anything in the way of enduring knowledge. Instead, it was a lot of ballyhoo abetted by sedulous and decidedly incurious news coverage. Another way of looking at such a documentary during a time of sheltering in place might be: "And you think you're bickering? How about getting locked into a gigantic greenhouse with strangers for two years, with people paying to gawk at you as though you were a zoo animal?"
In the late 1800s, Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man participating in the Ghost Dance movement, had a vision of a figure with pierced hands who identified himself as the Son of God. He called on all the people of the world to unite. "Walking the Good Red Road: Nicholas Black Elk's Journey to Sainthood," an intriguing profile recounting Black Elk's eventful life, premiered in May and is being rebroadcast in early July. Presented in partnership with the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, the film was funded in part by the Catholic Communications Campaign.
