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By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – A wide majority of Massgoers are satisfied with the new English translation of the Roman Missal introduced a year ago at Advent, a survey showed. Seventy percent of Catholics responding agreed that the translation is a “good thing,” according to results of the survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the […]
Columns
By Peter Finney Jr.
NEW ORLEANS – Among the thousands of pilgrims trekking to Rome for the Oct. 21 canonization of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha – “the Lily of the Mohawks” – will be 4-year-old Katherine Kateri Howat from Metairie, La., dressed as a Mohawk princess. She likely will be on her father’s shoulders in St. Peter’s Square trying to […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – As the church is set to begin the Year of Faith and a synod on the new evangelization, the rosary can play a key role in strengthening and spreading the word of God, said a leading American expert in Marian studies. “This Year of Faith is a call for evangelization, a new evangelization […]
Local
March 29 – Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, Cathedral of Saint Thomas More, Arlington March 30 – Annual Holy Saturday Rosary at Abortion Clinic, Falls Church Easter Vigil Mass, Cathedral of Saint Thomas More, Arlington March 31 – Easter Sunday Mass, Saint Leo the Great Church, Fairfax
Local
By Marylynn G. Hewitt Catholic News Service
DETROIT – Although planning for a financially sound retirement can be an overwhelming process, it doesn’t have to be if people start making decisions about it before they retire and seek professional help to steer them in the right direction. Jim Lampertius, an attorney in Farmington Hills, knows it usually takes a trigger point to […]
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
A David-vs.-Goliath story, directed by Daniel Barnz, about a teacher (Viola Davis) and a parent (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who join forces to save a failing public school from a wicked bureaucracy, hoping to turn it into a charter school where students not only learn but thrive. Facing mighty opposition from the powerful teachers’ union and its […]
Movies
Flawed, but fundamentally moral, mix of comedy and drama in which Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a long-married couple who have gradually grown physically and emotionally distant. At her insistence, they set off from their home in suburban Omaha, Neb., to Maine for a week of intensive therapy with a marriage counselor and […]
Movies
The 16th president of the United States uses his trusty ax to split a lot more than rails in this goofy mash-up of American history, directed by Timur Bekmambetov from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith (based on his 2010 novel). Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) vows revenge after his mother is killed by a vampire’s bite. Trained […]
Movies
By John Mulderig Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – A thinking person’s road movie, “The Way” (Producers Distribution Agency /ARC) follows a quartet of central characters along the ancient pilgrimage route from France to the Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela, even as it conducts viewers through a reflective, and ultimately rewarding, exploration of elemental themes. Writer-director Emilio Estevez’s drama challenges […]
