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Simone Biles won the women’s Olympic all-around gold medal Aug. 11. Her teammate Aly Raisman finished second. RIO DI JANEIRO – U.S. Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Simone Biles says when she travels, she sometimes takes with her a statue of St. Sebastian, the patron saint of athletes, and she also carries a rosary her […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
It’s that time of year in the life of a family when calendar squares begin to fill. Pencils in hand (because things change and it’s not quite time for pens yet), we grid in the soccer schedule, the “first day of” dates, the fall birthdays, the auditions, the new lessons. When finished, we stare in […]
Movies
Weak fifth installment in the animated franchise for children finds the good-hearted but overprotective father (voice of Ray Romano) of a family of wooly mammoths leading his levelheaded wife (voice of Queen Latifah), sunny daughter (voiced by Keke Palmer) and soon-to-be son-in-law (voice of Adam Devine) on an unlikely quest: They’re out to use magnetic […]
Movies
This teen-geared drama starts with an intriguing premise: an online game in which viewers pay to watch players fulfill real-life dares in exchange for significant sums of money. Yet, as a straitlaced New York City high school senior (Emma Roberts) tries to shake her reputation for conformity by participating, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s […]
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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 […]
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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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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
