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Absurdly convoluted and morally bankrupt action-drama about an autistic man (Ben Affleck) with an innate genius for crunching numbers and the learned ability to kill with brutal precision. After years working as a forensic accountant for criminal enterprises worldwide, the deeply flawed protagonist takes on a legitimate client; in the process, he meets a young […]
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Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars in this moving dramatization of the life of Nat Turner, an enslaved Virginian whose eponymous 1831 rebellion represented the most serious challenge of its kind ever posed to slavery in the antebellum South. Taught to read at an early age, Turner becomes a preacher whose gifts are turned to […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Professing belief in the resurrection of the dead and affirming that the human body is an essential part of a person’s identity, the Catholic Church insists that the bodies of the deceased be treated with respect and laid to rest in a consecrated place. While the Catholic Church continues to prefer burial […]
Movies
An overheated tone and characters’ questionable tactics in the struggle against abortion undercut the obviously good intentions behind this pro-life drama. A Special Forces veteran (Rusty Joiner) who teaches boxing at an inner-city Philadelphia church’s outreach center is dismayed to find an abortion mill operating across the street. Previously uninvolved in the political controversy, but […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — U.S. bishops are scheduled to elect the next president and vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at their upcoming fall general assembly taking place Nov. 14-16 in Baltimore. Each office is elected from a slate of 10 candidates who have been nominated by their fellow bishops. Released by the USCCB, […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
One of the happiest moments of Justin Kenny’s life was the day he learned he had been accepted to Marymount University in Arlington. For a Rhode Island native interested in journalism, it seemed like the perfect college: a small liberal arts school with a communications department, next to the nation’s capital. Still, his lackluster grades […]
Local
By Elizabeth A. Elliott
A suspicious fire Oct. 17 at the Paul Stefan Foundation’s Regional Maternity Center in Orange appears to have been an attempt to stop the foundation from — as their motto says — “saving babies, one mom at a time.” The fire, which started in one of the back rooms on the first floor, was discovered […]
Local
By Elizabeth A. Elliott
After Jesuit Father David Collins, 51, announced he would major in history at the University of Virginia, his mother, Katherine, urged him to minor in something practical. “He showed me,” she said. Father Collins is a history professor at Georgetown University in Washington and recently chaired its Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation that […]
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Father Michael J. Morris, former military chaplain, died Oct. 23. He was 54. He was in residence at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield. He was born June 24, 1962, in Denver, Colo., the son of George and Maria Morris. He attended the University of Alabama Birmingham for undergraduate studies and earned two Master’s Degrees during […]
Local
By Elizabeth A. Elliott
A conference aimed at women in midlife brought 70 women from 25 parishes together Oct. 21 and 22 at the Hyatt Regency in Fairfax. For women over 40, the first Future with Hope Conference was tailored for them by Future with Hope Women, a local group begun by four Catholic women in the Arlington Diocese. […]
