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While separated from her unfaithful husband (John Corbett), a high school English teacher (Jennifer Lopez) is seduced by a newly arrived teen neighbor (Ryan Guzman) who turns out to be an obsessive maniac. Since her ill-chosen paramour has managed to befriend her bullied son (Ian Nelson) and, although of age, will soon be her student, […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Jochebed, daughter of Levi, was living under Egyptian oppression when the Pharaoh ordered that the Israelites’ baby boys be drowned in the Nile. Though she safely hid her son for three months, the day came when she could hide him no longer. And so she made the heart-wrenching choice memorialized in the Book of Exodus. […]
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The real depredations of Alzheimer’s disease and its toll on the families of the afflicted are not on display in this flawed drama about a Columbia University linguistics professor (Julianne Moore) who falls prey to the early-onset strain of the illness shortly after turning 50. While it features a sensitive and appealing performance by Moore, […]
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Lacking close friends, a likable nebbish (Josh Gad) betrothed to a shallow beauty (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) engages the services of a best-man-for-hire (Kevin Hart) and a hastily assembled – and thoroughly motley – crew of fake groomsmen. Though it sketchily traces the burgeoning affinity between the husband-to-be and his stand-in bosom buddy, director and co-writer Jeremy […]
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By Mike Nelson
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – It is not an overtly “religious” film. Other than a brief funeral scene inside of a church early in the film, there is no mention of God, or of a particular faith or religion. And yet, “Black or White” is, according to its makers and stars, clearly a film that addresses […]
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By Dave Borowski
In his 1998 encyclical “Fides et Ration” (“Faith and Reason”), St. John Paul wrote, “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth – in a word, to know himself – so […]
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By Dave Borowski
Holy Spirit Church in Annandale was filled with mourners Jan. 27 as Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde and more than 70 priests from the Arlington and Richmond Dioceses offered the funeral Mass for Father Frank J. Ready. A Knights of Columbus honor guard escorted the bishop and Father Ready’s coffin to the altar. Father Lee […]
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By Soren Johnson
As a dad of young children, I sometimes think that my wife and I are workers at a muddy and chaotic construction site – setting (I hope) solid foundations. Every once in a while we emerge from behind the construction perimeter fence and go out on a rare date together, only to disappear down below […]
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By Christine Stoddard
When the time came to declare his major, aspiring priest Leopoldo M. Vives – then an 18-year-old college student at the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid, Spain – didn’t go for theology or philosophy. Instead Father Vives, now pastor of Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria since June 2013, spent six years studying electrical […]
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Jimmy Skipper, a senior at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, was named a 2014 Fall High School Soccer All-American Jan. 17 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. A left-footed forward and team co-captain, Skipper led Paul VI with 25 goals and eight assists during the fall 2014 season. He also was […]
