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By Catholic News Service
A smart-alecky tone mars this Netflix sci-fi action adventure in which a time traveler (Ryan Reynolds) from the year 2050 arrives in the present where he teams with his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell) to nip a future problem for humanity in the bud. Behind the flip dialogue are some positive messages about family bonding (with […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
When The Riddler (Paul Dano) targets a series of Gotham’s corrupt politicians for assassination, the iconic crimefighter Batman (Robert Pattinson) enters into an uneasy alliance with a police lieutenant (Jeffrey Wright) and an equally volatile partnership with the Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) to stop the killing spree. He’s backed up by his protective butler (Andy Serkis) […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — St. Peter gained the upper hand on St. Patrick’s Day when the underdog team of the small Jesuit school, Saint Peter’s University of Jersey City, New Jersey, upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The school’s winning streak continued in the second round of […]
Parishes
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Before too long, the clergy and faithful at Corpus Christi Church in Aldie can enjoy spending a little less time driving U.S. Route 50 than they do now. Currently, the parish office sits in an office park in South Riding, four-plus miles down the often-busy road from where congregants gather for worship in Aldie. Parish […]
Parishes
By Zoey Maraist
As a child, Father Maurice Henry Sands often faced discrimination when he stepped off the Native American reservation where he lived. “People (in the nearby town) didn’t like us,” he said. “The kids didn’t like us, the teachers didn’t like us. They called us animals, or dirty. We’d hear that all the time.” But his […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
MANCHESTER, England — The British Parliament threw out an attempt to legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales. Amendment 170 to the Health and Social Care Bill would have forced the British government to introduce assisted suicide legislation in the near future. But members of the House of Lords, Britain’s second political chamber, rejected the […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Something unusual happened last month at the session during which President Joe Biden introduced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his choice for the Supreme Court. When her turn to speak came, she began by thanking not Biden but God. These days nominees for high office in the nation’s capital don’t ordinarily declare themselves by speaking […]
Global
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill spoke via video conference about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the hopes for a peaceful solution, the Vatican said. In a statement released March 16, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the meeting “was motivated by the desire to show, as shepherds of their people, […]
Global
By Sarah Mac Donald
ARMAGH, Northern Ireland — In a joint message for St. Patrick’s Day, the Catholic and Anglican archbishops of Armagh said the war in Ukraine is a lesson to Northern Ireland to “never take peace for granted” and “never give up on dialogue, the building of bridges, and mutual understanding across historical divides.” Catholic Archbishop Eamon […]
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