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By: The Catholic Post - January 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Zoe Saldana and Ben Affleck star in a scene from the movie "Live by Night." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Style trumps substance in this glossy crime drama tracing the rise of a Boston-bred gangster (Ben Affleck, who also wrote and directed) in the Florida of the 1920s and ’30s. After a near-fatal conflict with the Irish-American kingpin (Robert Glenister) with whose girlfriend (Sienna Miller) he was having an affair, he […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Jane Levy and Lucas Till star in a scene from the movie "Monster Trucks." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service This action comedy certainly lives up to its title since it revolves around strange creatures mysteriously propelling utilitarian vehicles in the absence of an internal combustion engine. A North Dakota high school senior (Lucas Till), wanting nothing more than the independence that will come with his own set of wheels, has […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Lewis MacDougall confronts The Monster, voiced by Liam Neeson, in the movie "A Monster Calls." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Uncompromisingly dark melodrama about an adolescent British boy (Lewis MacDougall) struggling to cope with a variety of problems, the most dramatic being his mother’s (Felicity Jones) impending death from cancer. Coming to his “rescue” is a benevolent giant (voice of Liam Neeson) formed from the bark and roots of the local […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Kate Beckinsale stars in a scene from the movie "Underworld: Blood Wars." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service The bloodletting eventually goes off the charts in director Anna Foerster’s fifth installment in an action-horror franchise that reaches back to 2003’s “Underworld.” Along the way to its grisly conclusion, the film recounts the latest travails of the series’ recurring main character (Kate Beckinsale), a skilled warrior now alienated from both […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Janelle Monae stars in a scene from the movie "Hidden Figures." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Appealing fact-based drama about an extraordinarily gifted mathematician (Taraji P. Henson) working for NASA in the early 1960s. As she and two equally brilliant colleagues (Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae) who are also her close friends battle racism and segregation, she gradually wins the respect of her well-meaning but initially unenlightened […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star in a scene from the movie "La La Land." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Inspired by the musicals of Hollywood’s golden age, this comedy-drama set in present-day Los Angeles chronicles the gooey romance of two star-crossed lovers: an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling). She wants to be a movie star, while he hopes to open his own club. The path […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - January 13, 2017 -
Featured Article
charity, creative, Friends of Jesus, Kewanee, Visitation Catholic School
Addi and Brady Clark hold just a few of the 500 diapers they purchased for the St. Vincent de Paul food pantry at Saint John Paul II Parish in Kewanee with the money they pooled from the "Friends of Jesus" project. (Provided photo)
KEWANEE — Asked how they would help someone at Christmas if they had $50 in imaginary “Vis Bucks” to spend, the fifth- and sixth-graders at Visitation Catholic School got creative. When they each received an actual $50 bill the next day, they got to be a “Friend of Jesus.” Visitation was one of 25 schools […]
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By: Tom Dermody - January 13, 2017 -
Featured Article
Bradley University, Fellowship of Catholic University Students, FOCUS, SEEK, University of Illinois
St. Joseph Catholic Newman Center at Bradley University in Peoria sponsored a bus trip to SEEK 2017 in San Antoino that drew 50 students. (Provided photo)
In need of reigniting the fire for her Catholic faith, Liz Schultz found the spark she needed during SEEK 2017. “I was kind of struggling in my faith, especially in my prayer life,” acknowledged Schultz, a Bradley University senior nursing student from Groveland. She was among 13,000 people — nearly all college students — who […]
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By: Tom Dermody - January 13, 2017 -
Featured Article
Father Anthony Co, Rock Island, Sacred Heart Parish, School, Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Sacred Heart name is seen above the main entrance to the former school, built in 1923. (Provided photo)
ROCK ISLAND — The former Sacred Heart School here has come down, but Sacred Heart Parish is “going up,” according to Father Anthony Co, pastor. “God wants to bless this place,” said Father Co during a Christmas Eve Mass homily at the historic church, located for more than a century along busy 5th Avenue and […]
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By: Tom Dermody - January 13, 2017 -
Editorial
As 2017 begins, with its blank calendar pages representing mysteries waiting to unfold in all aspects of our lives, a giant question mark on the national and world scene is what President Donald Trump will do, say, or — heaven help us — tweet in the days and months after his inauguration on Jan. 20. […]
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