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More than 200 guests, including several young adults, attended the Peace and Justice Conference at Church of the Nativity in Burke March 23. George Mason University law professor Helen Alvaré gave the keynote address.
The Order of Malta hosted the annual Mass for the Anointing of the Sick.
Superintendent of Schools Jennifer Bigelow will resign her position effective June 30 as she and her family decided to relocate out of the area.
Father Claude Grou, rector of St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, was stabbed during a Mass March 22. The motive for the attack remains unknown.
With other diocesan priests surrounding him, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge marked the 21st anniversary of Bishop John R. Keating’s death at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More March 22.
As an immediate sign of his concern and an encouragement to other donors, Pope Francis has sent $50,000 each to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to assist with initial emergency relief efforts after a cyclone hit the region and caused massive flooding.
When her mother (voice of Jennifer Garner) becomes seriously ill and must go away for medical treatment, a young girl (voice of Brianna Denski) lashes out by turning her back on the imaginary amusement park they had created together with the help of an ensemble of stuffed animals (the most prominent voiced by Norbert Leo Butz, Ken Hudson Campbell and Mila Kunis). But on a journey through the woods near her home she stumbles on a real-life version of the venue and finds that it's in crisis because of her anger and neglect.
This generally engaging young-adult romantic drama about the redeeming power of sacrificial love is aimed, with the precision of a heat-seeking missile, at 17-year-old girls. But mature themes, including sexuality, preclude endorsement for most adolescents. Director Justin Baldoni and screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis take on mortality from cystic fibrosis, a subject that could easily have led them into tasteless mawkishness. Instead, they've treated their material in a way that's compassionate, medically correct and, for the most part, morally sound. br />
Lavish origin story finds the superhero of the title (Brie Larson) faithfully serving the alien civilization that trained her as a warrior in its struggle against the encroachments of a race of shape-shifting enemies (led by Ben Mendelsohn). But when she joins her military mentor (Jude Law) on a mission to 1995 Earth, persistent flashbacks to a previous life become ever more troubling and confusing for her, especially after she joins forces with a SHIELD officer (Samuel L. Jackson) and the two go in search of the scientist (Annette Bening) who seems to be crucial both to the intergalactic conflict and to her missing past.
Writer-director and star Tyler Perry has given his alter ego Mabel "Madea" Simmons a sweet and funny valedictory as she organizes a family funeral and dispenses relationship wisdom to younger family members caught in the pain of infidelity. It's an immensely satisfying story that returns to the formula of Perry's successful stage plays.
