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Framed for the murder of a fellow operative, a late-21st-century CIA agent (Guy Pearce) is offered a reprieve if he rescues the president’s (Peter Hudson) daughter (Maggie Grace) who’s been taken hostage by rioting prisoners during a goodwill tour of an orbiting penitentiary. Logical lapses are papered over with macho posturing and wisecracks in directors […]
Global
By Simon Caldwell
MANCHESTER, England – The peal of church bells across London for three minutes beginning at 8:12 a.m., July 27 signified that after seven years of intense preparation the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games had at last reached England’s capital. The mass bell-ringing was an initiative in which all of the city’s churches were invited to […]
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Vengeance story set in the near and distant future, involving a group of assassins, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has to give chase when his next victim is his future self, played by Bruce Willis. Director-writer Rian Johnson has produced a mix of science fiction and old-time Western that looks to have been concocted by a […]
National
By Paula Doyle
LOS ANGELES – After California priest Father Thomas Baker finished a grueling triathlon in Hawaii, he acknowledged that parts of the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike race and a 26.2-mile marathon were tough. That’s when, he said later, he “used the rosary, my mantras and the faces of all those praying for me to help me […]
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Fast-moving, intensely silly 3-D adventure picks up where the last film in the Madagascar franchise left off, with Alex the lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (voice of Chris Rock), and pals Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo trying to return to New York City by refurbishing a European circus. Co-directors Eric […]
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Sordid drama in which a veteran male stripper (Channing Tatum) convinces his boss (Matthew McConaughey) to hire a novice (Alex Pettyfer) he has befriended. But the experienced burlesque boy’s romantic interest in his new pal’s sister (Cody Horn) runs up against her well-founded disapproval of his immature, hedonistic lifestyle. Though it follows a morally acceptable […]
National
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – A poll analyzing views about gun control in the context of people’s faith groups found that a majority of Americans believe gun rights are as important as other constitutional rights, but they draw the line at guns being permitted in churches and government buildings. The survey by Public Religion Research Institute, released Aug. […]
Local
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – When people plan for retirement, they usually make sure their finances are in order and make plans for their upcoming spare time. Making their homes safer and easier to navigate isn’t often on the top of their to-do list but experts say it should be. According to a recent AARP study about […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
MANILA, Philippines – Flooding caused by days of torrential rains forced more than a quarter million people from their homes in parts of the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces. The government said that at least 50 percent of metropolitan Manila was under water, displacing an estimated 270,000 people, reported the Asian church news agency UCA […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions, the pro-life movement hasn’t stepped back in its resolve to see the decision reversed. Each year near Jan. 22, the day of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions on abortion, tens of thousands of protesters march in Washington and San Francisco […]
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Pope Leo XIV
6/2/26
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