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National
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – A major study of the religious landscape of the United States shows a continuing decline in the number of people who consider themselves part of any religion, with the largest shift occurring among the “millennial” generation. The Pew Research Center survey of 35,000 people, conducted in 2014, found that the percentage of Americans […]
Global
By Anto Akkara
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The second major earthquake in less than three weeks spread renewed fears and dented the confidence of people, said church and charity workers. “The death and devastation may be less, but the psychological impact is very high,” Bishop Paul Simick of Nepal told Catholic News Service May 13. “They were slowly recovering […]
Movies
Presumably intended as a droll comedy about the pursuit of fame and the vagaries of sexual experimentation, writers and co-directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul’s film amounts instead to a consistently cynical, intermittently depraved exercise in strained humor. They use the occasion of a high school reunion to draw a hackneyed contrast between the seemingly […]
Movies
Crass misogyny overwhelms any thoughtful considerations on the rapid development of artificial intelligence that this sometimes witty tale of a mad scientist (Oscar Isaac), his assistant (Domhnall Gleeson) and his buxom, skimpily clad creation (Alicia Vikander) might have to offer. Writer-director Alex Garland apparently presumes that a big naked finale doesn’t count as gratuitous if […]
Movies
Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel about romantic entanglements in the English countryside returns to the big screen in this fourth film adaptation, directed by Thomas Vinterberg. After unexpectedly inheriting a farm and a fortune, an independent-minded woman (Carey Mulligan) is determined to achieve success in a world run by men. She’s pursued by three suitors: a […]
Columns
By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: In the Catholic Herald (April 23-29), there was the article, “Personal, intimate devotion to Mary.” I was surprised to read Father Majorano’s comment, “The sense of Pope Francis’ devotion to Mary is a little more personal, more intimate than St. John Paul’s was. Pope Francis expresses that feeling that exists between a son and […]
Arts
By Nora Hamerman
A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington offers the opportunity to appreciate some of the greatest artists of the western Christian tradition working in a medium that was esteemed highly in the Renaissance but later fell out of use. “Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns” takes visitors from […]
Arts
By Reviewed David Gibson
With the 2013 election of history’s first Jesuit pope, interest mounted exponentially in the now-worldwide Society of Jesus that St. Ignatius Loyola, with nine friends, founded in the 16th century. What Pope Francis’ election means for the Jesuits “remains to be seen,” writes Jesuit Father John W. O’Malley. But he points out in The Jesuits […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Peace takes hard work and must be built one person at a time working each day by forgiving others, ending injustice and stopping greed, Pope Francis told elementary school children. People also have to do more to stop condemning those who have made serious mistakes and instead help those who are incarcerated, […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
“Against all odds, Manassas City Councilman Marc Aveni, Catholic father of six, has waged a two-year struggle to require a special use permit and public hearing for any abortion clinic opening anywhere in the City of Manassas,” said John Murray, pro-life coordinator at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax. Murray is part of a large […]
