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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has named Bishop Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas to head the Vatican’s new office for laity, family and life. The Dublin-born bishop will celebrate his 69th birthday Sept. 2, the day after the new Vatican office officially begins its work. In a statement a few hours after his appointment was […]
Schools
By Meredith Husar
Surrounded by her children, grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Donaldson opened a manila envelope handed to her by Emily Gerke. She slowly pulled out a small towel with “Home is where our story begins” printed on it in swirling cursive letters. As she unfolded it, more messages appeared – all handwritten. Her eyes darted across […]
Arts
Writer-director Woody Allen’s seriocomic look at romance follows a Depression-era Bronx lad (Jesse Eisenberg) to Los Angeles, where he gets a job with his uncle (Steve Carell), a powerful Hollywood agent. But when his relationship with the agent’s lissome secretary (Kristen Stewart) leads to disillusionment, he returns to New York to manage a new nightclub […]
Movies
The 13th big-screen outing for the sci-fi franchise that began as a TV series in the 1960s is, overall, a rousing and rambunctious 3-D adventure. Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) of the Starship Enterprise and his crew (including Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Karl Urban) respond to a distress call in a remote part […]
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Aug. 15 is the feast of the Assumption, which commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into heaven. Because the feast falls on a Monday this year, the holy day obligation is abrogated, or temporarily waived, for U.S. Catholics of the Latin rite. The holy day obligation requires the faithful to participate in […]
Arts
A stressed-out suburban mother (Mila Kunis) rebels against her taxing daily routine, demanding that her kids (Emjay Anthony and Oona Laurence) start fending for themselves in minor ways and indulging herself by skipping work, drinking and relaxing. Aided by two other like-minded moms – one a timid housewife (Kristen Bell), the other a raucous loudmouth […]
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By Connor Bergeron
A crowd gathered at the Mount Vernon Knights of Columbus council hall in Alexandria last month to hear Bishop Emeritus Macram Max Gassis, exiled bishop of the El Obeid Diocese in Sudan. He painted a landscape that pained him to tell; his homeland is a nightmare. Bombings, genocide, slavery, rape, civil war and Christian persecution […]
Movies
Matt Damon returns in the fifth big-screen outing for the memory-damaged and monosyllabic government agent who first appeared in the novels of Robert Ludlum. Director Robert Greengrass, who co-scripted with Christopher Rouse, bookends the story with extended car and motorcycle chases, with the result that vehicle casualties considerably outnumber the body count from weapons. Although […]
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By Meredith Husar
The Knights of Columbus Fr. Vincent S. Sikora Council, in partnership with Church of the Nativity in Burke, recently built two homes for poor families in rural Kentucky in less than three weeks. These were the 17th and 18th homes built by the council alongside the Appalachian Construction Crew since 2001. With the help of […]
The golden door