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By Catholic News Service
Glum origin story, drawn from the Marvel Comics series, recounts how a quartet of youthful science enthusiasts – Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Toby Kebbell – working under the sponsorship of a wealthy research institute (represented by Reg E. Cathey), develops a machine capable of transporting people to a previously unknown dimension. […]
National
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA – Christianity may be thriving around the world, but it is under severe attack and threatened with extinction in the Middle East, the region of its birth. This was a major theme at the recent 133rd Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus in Philadelphia. It was stressed at a news conference with Supreme […]
Local
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – The Older Americans Act, under which millions of Americans have enjoyed services in nutrition, health and employment, turned 50 July 14 with little fanfare. The programs funded under the act – such as Meals on Wheels, senior centers, health screenings, adult day care, respite services, transportation services, elder abuse prevention and a long-term […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Co-writers and -directors Mark Burton and Richard Starzak use stop-action clay animation to craft an endearing feature about the madcap adventures of a wooly English flock. Unfolding without dialogue, yet filled with puns, the film follows the eponymous young ram (voice of Justin Fletcher) as he persuades his barnyard buddies to take a day off […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
In this low-budget exorcism flick, a young woman (Olivia Taylor Dudley) possessed by the Antichrist himself wreaks havoc on her family – Dougray Scott plays her gruff, devout dad – and on the clergymen (Michael Pena, Djimon Hounsou and Peter Andersson) trying to assist her. Though its lurid title attempts to mask bad plotting and […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Wretched revival of the comedy franchise that began with 1983’s “National Lampoon’s Vacation.” In an effort to shake up his family’s summer routine, the now-grown son (Ed Helms) of the original outing embarks with his wife (Christina Applegate) and quarrelsome kids (Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stebbins) on a road trip to the same California amusement […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
At an inch or so over five feet and weighing, I would guess, something on the underside of 100 pounds, Sister Winnie, a soft spoken Filipina, is not your typical dinner speaker. Yet a few weeks ago she held a room full of Washingtonians spellbound with her story — which is also the story of […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Aug. 10, the day of the annual Arlington Diocese altar server picnic, started out with gray skies and a threat of rain. That gloomy forecast didn’t stop more than 280 people, including altar servers, seminarians, priests, families and chaperones from coming to Lake Fairfax Park in Reston to honor boys and girls who serve their […]
Local
By Lyndsey Raynor
Ed Myers, a Sterling resident and a parishioner of Christ the Redeemer Church, has a new, environmentally friendly vehicle he uses to get to work. In May, Myers purchased an ELF FR, a low-speed electric bicycle that seats two people and has a battery-powered motor, which can be charged by a solar panel or an […]
National
By Christine Stoddard
Human trafficking “cries out for a Herculean response,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who has authored legislation on the matter since the ’90s. “It falls to each of us – and like-minded people everywhere – to wage an unceasing campaign to eradicate human trafficking from the face of the earth.” “We are our brothers’ and […]
