Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Oct. 28 Jeremiah 31:7-9; Psalm 126:1-2,2-3,4-5,6; Hebrews 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52 We Americans are an impatient people. We want what we want and we want it now — instant gratification. I typed “instant gratification” into a browser and got 14,600,000 hits in four-tenths of a second. I wonder why it took so long? […]
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Justin Bruening stars as U.S. Army Chaplain Darren Turner in a scene from the movie "Indivisible." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/courtesy Provident Films)
By Catholic News Service Earnest fact-based drama, set in 2007, in which an inexperienced Protestant Army chaplain (Justin Bruening) finds his pastoral skills, the stability of his marriage (to Sarah Drew) and even his faith tested when he’s assigned to care for a unit deployed on the dangerous outskirts of Baghdad. He helps to make […]
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Michael Nyqvist and Gerard Butler star in a scene from the movie "Hunter Killer." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Far-fetched but reasonably entertaining military potboiler puts scowling macho man Gerard Butler at the helm of a U.S. submarine during a potentially war-triggering crisis in relations with Russia. To avert a nuclear holocaust, he must not only do some fancy maneuvering but gain the cooperation of a Russian counterpart (Michael Nyqvist), […]
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Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford star in a scene from the movie "The Old Man & the Gun." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Writer-director David Lowery’s adaptation of David Grann’s New Yorker magazine profile of Forrest Tucker, who died in prison in 2004, is driven by the conceit of a career criminal as a jaunty old coot. During a wide-ranging spree of heists in 1981, Tucker (Robert Redford) works with two partners (Danny Glover […]
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Megan Lawless, Amandla Stenberg and Sabrina Carpenter star in a scene from the movie "The Hate U Give." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Real-life issues of racial justice are explored in this compelling drama, adapted from Angie Thomas’ novel for young adults by screenwriter Audrey Wells and director George Tillman Jr. An African-American teen (Amandla Stenberg) divides her time between her mostly black working-class neighborhood and the predominantly white private school she attends, adjusting […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Click the following to see a news release from the Catholic Diocese of Peoria dated Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. PR 10-18-18 Diocese Responds to Lawsuit by J Anderson
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Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the movie "Halloween." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Some interesting exposition exploring the long-term psychological effects on the heroine (Jamie Lee Curtis) of the eponymous 1978 slasher classic of her near-fatal encounter with masked madman Michael Myers (Nick Castle) during the first of his many blood-soaked rampages soon gives way to an orgy of gruesome and, in at least […]
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The banners of new saints Oscar Romero and Paul VI hang from the facade of St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Francis celebrates the canonization Mass for seven new saints in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 14. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Cindy Wooden / Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Carrying Pope Paul VI’s pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognized them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church. Thousands of pilgrims from the new saints’ home countries — Italy, El […]
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Father James E. King
A funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, at St. Mark Church in Peoria for Father James Edward King, a former pastor of parishes in Creve Coeur and East Moline who also served in Hispanic ministry throughout the Diocese of Peoria. Father King, a priest of the diocese who had […]
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Madison Iseman, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Caleel Harris star in a scene from the movie "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Weak follow-up to the 2015 original revolves around two boys (Jeremy Ray Taylor and Caleel Harris) who find an old manuscript by R.L. Stein (Jack Black) — the real-life author of the “Goosebumps” books — and, by opening it, unleash an evil ventriloquist’s dummy (voice of Mick Wingert) who proceeds to […]
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