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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, […]
Movies
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 […]
Columns
By George Weigel
In the wake of the horrific jihadist attack on the Paris-based journal Charlie Hebdo, the trope “satirical magazine” was regularly deployed to explain Charlie’s character and content. But that’s not quite right. And what’s wrong about it – when linked to the sentiment expressed on placards reading “We are all Charlie Hebdo” – suggests just […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON — Father Richard P. McBrien, a retired professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and who was chair of the university’s theology department for 11 years, died Jan. 25 at age 78 in his native Connecticut. A Jan. 25 announcement by the university said Father McBrien had died after a long illness, […]
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Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated Mass Jan. 22 at the Patriot Center in Fairfax as part of the Life Is Very Good rally prior to the annual March for Life. Thousands of pro-life students, clergy and religious gathered with the bishop before traveling to Washington for the march.
