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Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of a bishop, seven Trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria in the 1990s.
p class="Body">When it came time to interview prospective sailors for his expedition across Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton had clear-cut criteria. He had to pick the right men for his journey to the bottom of the world, a news-making attempt to be the first to cross the continent via the coldest place on Earth: the South Pole.
When I give to someone else the rare gift of genuine presence, I give them the essence of Christian compassion. Compassion calls us to suffer with someone, to enter into whatever it is that causes pain.
A relationship with Mary, the mother of God, is not "optional" for Christians, Pope Francis said, because Jesus points to her as a source of protection and guidance.
The Beacon newspaper, in partnership with the Maryland Federation of Art, invites seniors to submit artwork to a regional Celebration of the Arts competition this spring. The competition is part of a yearlong project intended to inspire readers to try a new means of self-expression through the arts.
In this adaptation of the third and final novel in James Dashner's sci-fi trilogy, the story of a band of teens and their fearless leader (Dylan O'Brien) fighting evil in post-apocalyptic world comes to a noisy and violent conclusion. The gang seeks to liberate their peers from tortuous experiments conducted by a wicked doctor (Patricia Clarkson) and her colleague (Kaya Scodelario), who seek a cure to a deadly virus that has decimated the population.
The plight of disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) is presented as a coarsening, numbing fusillade of domestic abuse and cursing, occasionally broken up by ice skating routines that conform to the formula of a sports drama, and eventually the inept execution of a crime — the assault on Tonya's rival, Nancy Kerrigan, just before the 1994 Winter Olympics.
In this bumpy, bizarre trip through high fashion and passive-aggressive sniping in 1950s London, a high-society dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) inflicts emotional torture on his latest muse (Vicky Krieps) until she finds a disturbing way to make him dependent on her.
