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By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – At what is a critical time for American Catholics to stand up in defense of life and religious freedom, they must engage in the church’s new evangelization effort, deepening their faith and sharing it in their everyday lives and in the public square, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori said Oct. 14. He made […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
The first symbol after each title is the Catholic News Service classification. The second symbol is the rating of the Motion Picture Association of America. CNS classifications: A-I – general patronage; A-II – adults and adolescents; A-III – adults; L – limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling; O – […]
Movies
The line between reality and cinema is blurred in this powerful but excessively violent drama. The complex plot centers on a borderline-alcoholic screenwriter (Colin Farrell) and two of his friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell). The latter duo have a scam going that involves kidnapping dogs and getting cash rewards for returning them to their […]
Movies
Mostly bloodless, in both a good and bad sense, writer-director Todd Lincoln’s derivative house of horrors tale – his feature debut – avoids offending but fails to engage. An otherworldly entity unleashed in a parapsychology experiment returns to haunt one of the participants (Sebastian Stan) and his live-in girlfriend (Ashley Greene) who knows nothing of […]
Movies
Writer-director Tyler Perry reprises the role of Madea, the familiar, frequently mixed-up, but mostly moral force of nature in a muumuu. In one of her weaker outings, her district attorney nephew (also Perry) convinces Madea to shelter a white family (headed by Eugene Levy) after a massive corporate Ponzi scheme gone awry, leaving Levy’s falsely […]
Movies
Grueling horror exercise in which a quartet of young Americans abroad (Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelley, Jesse McCartney and Olivia Taylor Dudley) get more than they bargained for when they hire an extreme-tourism travel guide (Dimitri Diatchenko) to take them to a Ukrainian city that had to be instantly evacuated in the wake of the 1986 […]
Schools
By Catholic News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Dominican Brother Ignatius Perkins, dean of nursing at Aquinas College in Nashville, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the St. Catherine of Siena endowed chair in Catholic health care ethics. The Dominican Friars of the Priory of St. Catherine of Siena established the chair at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of […]
Global
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – For the second straight year, the Pontifical North American College took home the championship title in Rome’s Clericus Cup soccer series. Captain America, Uncle Sam, Batman and Robin, Wolverine, the Mario Brothers and a fluffy yellow chicken were part of the flag-waving crowd that exploded into cheers when the NAC Martyrs beat the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – A little bit of spring cleaning or a much needed renovation can turn up the most unexpected things – especially if you’re sprucing up or digging through the Vatican. Home of hundreds of thousands of artifacts, archived documents, ornate frescoes, plaster niches and underground tombs, it can be heavenly for a treasure […]
National
By Catholic News Service
BOSTON – Even though “the culture of death looms large” today, the light of Christ the Good Shepherd “can expel the darkness and illuminate for us a path that leads to life, to a civilization of solidarity and love,” said Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley. “I hope that the events of this past week have […]
