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Joined by their family and friends, the group is one step closer to full communion with the church.
Rome's Colosseum, long a symbol of the persecution of early Christians, was bathed in red light Feb. 24 as a reminder of and a prayer for the thousands of Christians being persecuted for their faith today.
p class="Body">This enjoyably silly, generally family-friendly animated comedy pits a teenage caveman (voiced by Eddie Redmayne) and his tribe against a tyrant (voice of Tom Hiddleston) who wants to turn their home valley into a mine. Accidentally finding himself in the Bronze Age city the despot rules, the young troglodyte gets him to agree that a soccer match should determine the outcome.
Sprawling, energetic but ultimately overlong Marvel Comics adaptation from director and co-writer Ryan Coogler. The young sovereign (Chadwick Boseman) of an imaginary — and secret — African kingdom where the use of a super-powerful mineral has enabled the population to achieve both prosperity and a range of technological wonders unknown to the outside world must cope with two principal threats to his realm.
Absurdities alternate with exploitative sex scenes in this screen version of the third novel in E.L. James' tawdry trilogy. With their sadomasochistic relationship now solemnized by marriage, a fabulously wealthy, controlling tycoon (Jamie Dornan) and his mousy book editor of a bride (Dakota Johnson) look forward to a life of private jets, sleek yachts and kinky carryings-on in their penthouse's well-equipped dungeon.
The Rev. Billy Graham was "a preacher of God's word not only in his sermons, but also in the very life he lived," said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
p class="Body">Boston College was paying close attention to women's ice hockey at the Olympic Games, which ended with the team's 3-2 shootout win against Canada to capture the gold medal Feb. 22.
p class="Body">When I was about 13, I had a bad temper — so bad that I quit playing golf.
The call of Mount Moriah
Today's first reading about Abraham sacrificing his only son — the son of promise, the son who would carry the future of Abraham's descendants to be as numerous as the stars or the sands on the seashore — may strike us as brutal, savage, primitive and shocking. A little background may cause the dark clouds that envelop this reading to dissipate.