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By: The Catholic Post - December 17, 2019 -
Movie Review
August Diehl and Valerie Pachner star in a scene from the movie "A Hidden Life." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Luminous, though deliberately paced, fact-based drama recounting the events leading up to the 1943 martyrdom of Austrian farmer Franz Jagerstatter (August Diehl). Motivated by his deep Catholic faith, Jagerstatter, who was beatified in 2007, refused to swear the oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler that was demanded of all those drafted […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 13, 2019 -
Movie Review
Imogen Poots stars in a scene from the movie in "Black Christmas." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Sorority sisters (most prominently Imogen Poots) are preyed on by hooded assailants who seem to be connected to a fraternity on campus. Director and co-writer Sophia Takal uses the horror genre as a vehicle for a preposterously overblown feminist message, the bottom line of which is that the only good white […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 13, 2019 -
Movie Review
#MeToo, Charlize Theron, Gretchen Carlson, John Lithgow, Megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman, Roger Ailes
Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and D'arcy Carden star in a scene from the movie "Bombshell." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service The real-life story of the sexual harassment scandal that swamped the Fox News organization in 2016, helping to launch the #MeToo movement, is given a documentary-like treatment by director Jay Roach, with actors portraying actual TV moguls and personalities as well as fictional composites. Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) oversees a corrosive […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 12, 2019 -
Movie Review
Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Netflix
Jonathan Pryce portrays Pope Francis and Anthony Hopkins portrays retired Pope Benedict XVI in a scene from the movie "The Two Popes." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Peter Mountain, courtesy NETFLIX)
By Catholic News Service Glossy but highly speculative account of a visit to the Vatican by Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce), the future Pope Francis, shortly before the resignation of his predecessor, Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins). Screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Meirelles ill-advisedly try to extol Francis by trashing Benedict, presenting the latter as […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 12, 2019 -
Movie Review
Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black and Karen Gillan star in a scene from the movie "Jumanji: The Next Level." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Playful gender-bending within the context of a video-game alternate universe mingles with an unexpectedly somber message about approaching death in this follow-up to the 2017 original. Director Jake Kasdan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, has made, in spite of the sight gags about physical abilities and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 12, 2019 -
News Article
Sister Irene Krogmeier, OSB, died Dec. 10.
ROCK ISLAND — A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered for Sister Irene Krogmeier, OSB, on Friday, Dec. 13, at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel of St. Mary Monastery, 2200 88th Ave. West. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Rock Island. Visitation was planned for Thursday, Dec. 12, from 4 to 7 p.m., also […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - December 11, 2019 -
News Article
Cutting the ribbon for the new OSF Center for Health – Streator are (from left) Sister Jomary Trstensky, Sister Christia Ann Struewing, and Sister Maureen O'Connor of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, and Sister Agnes Joseph Williams, Sister Diane Marie McGrew, and Sister M. Mikela Meidl of OSF HealthCare. The building formerly served as St. Mary's Hospital, part of Hospital Sisters Health System. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
STREATOR — When there was a need for health care in Streator, the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis responded to the call. Arriving in 1887, they started St. Mary’s Hospital a year later. The hospital closed in 2016 and has found new life as the OSF Center for Health – Streator, something that makes the […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - December 11, 2019 -
Featured Article
Center for Health, OSF, rural, Streator
Designed as a "health care village," the new OSF Center for Health – Streator will make a variety of community resources available to people, as well as provide access to medical care in an effort to given patients better control over their health care, according to officials. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
STREATOR — With prayer, holy water and applause, the OSF Center for Health – Streator became the “epicenter” for a new model of rural health care on Dec. 5. “There are a lot of eyes on us across the state and across the nation to see how we here in Streator navigate this change and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 10, 2019 -
Movie Review
Adam Sandler stars in a scene from the movie "Uncut Gems." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/A24)
By Catholic News Service Relentlessly grating character study of a lowlife jewelry merchant (Adam Sandler) in New York’s Diamond District as he juggles his wife (Idina Menzel), the employee who doubles as his mistress (Julia Fox), the basketball gambling addiction that has left him in debt to his loan shark brother-in-law (Eric Bogosian) and his […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 10, 2019 -
Movie Review
Mark Ruffalo, Teflon, Todd Haynes
Mark Ruffalo stars in a scene from the movie "Dark Waters." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Fact-based drama about poisoned water, similar to 2000’s “Erin Brockovich,” has a single crusading lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) taking on a powerful company — in this case, DuPont — that’s been dumping industrial waste from the manufacture of Teflon around Parkersburg, West Virginia, the loyal company town where the coating is made. […]
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