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WASHINGTON -- Growing up in Louisiana, Bishop David L. Toups is no stranger to hurricanes. Yet he never expected that less than a week into his first assignment as bishop of the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, he'd be preparing to face a major hurricane.
VATICAN CITY -- Twenty-six weeks after his last weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis will resume his audiences with the public present, but in a Vatican courtyard.
Addressing racism means opening our hearts to an ongoing process of interior conversion as we “strive to see each other first as sons and daughters of God,” said Father Scott Woods, a priest in the Archdiocese of Washington, who spoke at the Aug. 25 diocesan conference, “Responding to Racism: Understanding, Conversion, Action.”
CLEVELAND -- Officials reported that at least 12 people had died as Tropical Storm Laura lashed Haiti and the Dominican Republic with strong winds and torrential rains, causing widespread flooding in low-lying communities.
Greg Rayman, a parishioner of St. Michael Church in Annandale and longtime coach and president of the Northern Virginia Junior Catholic Youth Organization, died Aug. 19.
After a psychotic incident injures a fellow student at his public high school, a teen (Charlie Plummer) suffering from schizophrenia transfers to a Catholic academy where he tries to fit in while coping with the effects of his affliction on his relationships with his loving mother (Molly Parker), her apparently hostile live-in boyfriend (Walton Goggins) and a newfound pal (Taylor Russell) he would like to make his girlfriend.
After a spoiled child (Dixie Egerickx) who has grown up in India finds herself orphaned due to an outbreak of cholera, she is forced to return to her parents' native England where she's taken in by her uncle (Colin Firth), a grieving widower, and supervised by his no-nonsense housekeeper (Julie Walters). The dreariness of her new home drives her outdoors where she accidentally discovers the enclave of the title.
Real-life father and son Liam Neeson and Micheal Richardson team up to play a fictional parent-grown-child duo in this blend of comedy, drama and romance, written and directed by James D'Arcy. Faced with being fired from his job as an art gallery manager by the establishment's owners, the family of his soon-to-be ex-wife (Yolanda Kettle), Richardson's character turns to his semi-estranged dad, a once-famous painter, to help him fix up and sell the house in Italy they jointly inherited from his long-dead mother so he will have the money to buy his workplace.
Teen angst permeates this somber drama charting the troubled romance between a high school senior (Austin Abrams) and a new classmate (Lili Reinhart) who has transferred in the wake of a car accident that cost the life of her boyfriend and left her both physically and emotionally scarred.
You, too, take up your cross
It’s a shocking scene. Peter, just having heard Jesus foretell his coming suffering, death and resurrection for the first time, takes Jesus and rebukes him. “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” It seems like a loving concern the disciple has for his Master. But Peter is thinking as men do, not as God does. He does not realize the true nature of Jesus’ mission and that it involves suffering, dying and rising again.