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By: The Catholic Post - May 9, 2019 -
Featured Article
Pope Francis prays in front of a candle in memory of victims of sexual abuse as he visits St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin Aug. 25, 2018. Pope Francis has revised and clarified norms and procedures for holding bishops and religious superiors accountable in protecting minors as well as in protecting members of religious orders and seminarians from abuse. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Carol Glatz / Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has revised and clarified norms and procedures for holding bishops and religious superiors accountable in protecting minors as well as in protecting members of religious orders and seminarians from abuse. The new juridical instrument is meant to help bishops and religious leaders […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Justice Smith, Detective Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, and Katrhyn Newton appear in the movie "Pokemon Detective Pikachu." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service A 21-year-old insurance worker (Justice Smith) hunts for his estranged father, a detective who may or may not have died in a car crash. He’s helped by dad’s pocket-monster partner (voice of Ryan Reynolds), a wisecracking creature he initially dislikes but eventually befriends, and by an aspiring reporter (Kathryn Newton) with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins star in a scene from the movie "Tolkien." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox Searchlight)
By Catholic News Service Sophisticated profile of the future novelist’s youth traces his passage from impoverished schoolboy (Harry Gilby) to Oxford University scholarship student and beleaguered officer in the trenches of World War I (Nicholas Hoult). Along the way, he bonds with a trio of precociously gifted peers (Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson and Tom Glynn-Carney) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Father Theodore Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame
This is a promotional poster for the new documentary "Hesburgh," about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years. (CNS/courtesy OCP Media)
By Catholic News Service Informative, though wholly uncritical, biographical documentary about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh (1917-2015) chronicles not only his long tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame but his involvement in cold-war diplomacy, the civil rights movement and shaping the changing character of Catholic higher education. Filmmaker Patrick Creadon’s profile touches […]
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By: Tom Dermody - May 3, 2019 -
Book Review
Book, Father Augustin Kassa, SMA, Suffering in the World
Father Augustin Kassa, SMA, is parochial vicar of St. Mary in Grand Ridge, St. Patrick in Seneca, St. Theresa in Earlville, St. Joseph in Marseilles, and St. Patrick in Ransom.
EARLVILLE — Father Augustin Kassa, SMA, dedicates his new book “to the suffering members of the body of Christ.” That’s a wide target audience, since everyone — from victims of terrorism and poverty to those confronting their own illness or that of a loved one — experiences pain and suffering in their lifetimes. And the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 3, 2019 -
Movie Review
Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen
Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen star in a scene from the movie "Long Shot." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.(CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Tasteless romantic comedy in which an out-of-work reporter (Seth Rogen) chances to reconnect with his former babysitter (Charlize Theron) who has since become the U.S. secretary of state and a presidential aspirant. She hires him as a speechwriter and the two fall for each other. Though the relationship is cheered on […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 3, 2019 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service A masked vigilante prowls the dark, mean streets of the inner city, fighting crime and defending the defenseless in this first superhero film with an all-Hispanic cast, directed and co-written by Ben Hernandez Bray. A police detective (Raul Castillo), investigating a massacre carried out by the head (Sal Lopez) of a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 3, 2019 -
Movie Review
Dennis Quaid, Deon Taylor, Meaghan Good, Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy, Meagan Good and Dennis Quaid star in a scene from "The Intruder." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.
By Catholic News Service A routine thriller for most of its running time, director Deon Taylor’s film becomes increasingly trashy before ending with the justification of a profoundly immoral act in which viewers are meant to revel. A prosperous San Francisco couple (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) plan to move to the Napa Valley and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 2, 2019 -
News Article
Alleman, CSV, Father Robert Bolser, Rantoul, Viatorian
Father Robert Bolser, CSV
HENDERSON, Nevada — A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, May 4, at St. Thomas More Church here for Father Robert T. Bolser, CSV, a native of Rantoul who taught at Alleman High School in Rock Island from 1976 to 1983. Father Bolser died on April 28 at Nathan Adelson Hospice in […]
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By: Tom Dermody - May 1, 2019 -
Featured Article
Delavan, Farmer City, OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois, Tom Brewer, Tremont, WALK4CHOI
Tom Brewer of Tremont, right, walks along U.S. Highway 150 as he, accompanied by Julie and Matt Hohulin, approach Farmer City on April 30. Brewer is walking a 132-mile route from Danville to Peoria to raise money for OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
As Tom Brewer checked various life adventures and experiences off his bucket list, the retired engineer from St. Mary Parish in Delavan reached for a new bucket to fill with gratitude and ways to pay his blessings forward. And so this week Brewer, 73 — who has hiked the Appalachian Trail, climbed Mount Everest to […]
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