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Parishioners at St. Katharine Drexel Mission celebrated their patron saint’s feast day Feb. 28.
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Generally uplifting fact-based drama in which a working-class English lad (Taron Egerton) aspires to become an Olympic athlete. The barriers standing in his way include a childhood disability, a near-total lack of natural talent, the dyed-in-the-wool snobbery of the British sports establishment and the firm opposition of his practical-minded father (Keith Allen). Yet, with the […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
Father Luke Willenberg, Second Battalion Chaplain of the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division’s 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, now holds the record for the fastest 12-mile foot march by any soldier ever to graduate from the U.S. Army’s elite DeClopper Air Assault School in Fort Bragg, N.C. Father Willenberg broke the previous record last month by […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Speculation and trial balloons floating lately over the Vatican walls suggest that Pope Francis wants to open up a discussion of married priests in the church. According to reports, this will be the topic of the next world Synod of Bishops in a couple of years. Yes, I know the church already has some married […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
“We cannot depart here unchanged,” said Father Paul D. Scalia in the funeral homily for his father, Justice Antonin Scalia. Indeed, as I listened to a son reflect on his dad and glimpsed the justice’s nine children and 36 grandchildren at the funeral, something about Justice Scalia’s fatherhood confronted me. “I have found his death […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
How did we ever live without Netflix? I work out on my treadmill in the mornings. And now, thanks to the the iPad and the wonders of online entertainment streaming, I can binge-watch TV shows while I’m exercising. My current binge is “Friday Night Lights.” It’s a good show about high school football in a […]
Movies
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper said the Oscar-winning film, “Spotlight,” is not anti-Catholic. “It is not an anti-Catholic movie, as has been written, because the film succeeds in giving voice to the alarm and deep pain” experienced by the Catholic faithful when a team of investigative newspaper reporters in Boston revealed the scandal of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Simon Newman, president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, resigned from his post Feb. 29 and the university’s board of trustees named the dean of the business school to be acting president. Newman faced mounting criticism over language he used to describe struggling freshmen and for the way he handled the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In the second of his “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation center. To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort at the San Carlo Community Feb. 26 with just […]
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