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By: The Catholic Post - September 2, 2020 -
Movie Review
Alex Winter, Dean Parisot, Keanu Reeves
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves star in a scene from the 2020 film "Bill & Ted Face the Music." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Patti Perret, courtesy Orion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Nearly three decades on from their second teen adventure, the two amiable, time-traveling, now middle-aged knuckleheads of the title (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are frustrated by their ongoing inability to fulfill a prophecy that they would someday write a song that would unite the world. But the stakes involved in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 2, 2020 -
Movie Review
Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Pattinson
This is a scene from the movie "Tenet." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Melinda Sue Gordon, Warner Bros. Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service As he did with 2010’s “Inception” and “Interstellar” (2014), writer-director Christopher Nolan serves up a cerebral thriller, a blockbuster accompanied by a heavy-handed science lesson — in this case about temporal mechanics and the possibility of time travel. The mysterious spy agency of the title enlists a CIA operative (John David […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 2, 2020 -
Movie Review
Marvel Comics, X-Men
Maisie Williams, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt, Charlie Heaton and Anya Taylor-Joy star in a scene from the 2020 film "The New Mutants." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service This 13th and officially final installment of the “X-Men” film series is an unsatisfying conclusion to the once-mighty franchise, a dreary, derivative and gratuitous horror thriller, based on a set of Marvel Comics, directed and co-written by Josh Boone. Five teenagers (Charlie Heaton, Blu Hunt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams and Henry […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 27, 2020 -
News Article
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter from Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka was published in the issue of The Catholic Post dated Aug. 30, 2020. Dear People of God in the Diocese of Peoria, It has been just over a month since we celebrated my ordination and installation as the Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Peoria. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 26, 2020 -
Living the Word
Father R. Michael Schaab
By Father R. Michael Schaab Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Aug. 30 Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalm 63:2,3-4,5-6,8-9; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27 Three words help us understand the readings for this Sunday — contrast, contradiction and paradox. Contrast means one thing is strikingly different from another. Today’s Gospel stands in contrast to last week’s Gospel, Peter’s profession of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 26, 2020 -
News Article
Sister Mary Francis Goodson, FSGM
CHAMPAIGN — Sister Mary Francis Goodson, FSGM, a mathematics teacher at The High School of Saint Thomas More in Champaign, has made her final profession of vows with the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George. The celebration took place during feast day festivities at the motherhouse in Alton on Aug. 3. “I […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 26, 2020 -
News Article
GALESBURG — Students will be asked to describe their world in 10 years as part of Knox County Right to Life’s sixth annual essay contest. Submissions will be accepted from Sept. 1 through Sept. 30. The contest is open to students in grades six through 12 in Knox County. Essays may not exceed 500 words. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 20, 2020 -
Movie Review
Andy Garcia, Charlie Plummer, Molly Parker, Walton Goggins
This is a cropped version of the movie poster for "Words on Bathroom Walls." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Roadside)
By Catholic News Service 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 […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2020 -
Movie Review
Liam Neeson, Micheal Richardson
Micheál Richardson and Liam Neeson star in a scene from the movie "Made in Italy." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/IFC)
By Catholic News Service 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 […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2020 -
Movie Review
Colin Firth, Dixie Egerickx, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Julie Walters
Dixie Egerickx stars in a scene from the movie "The Secret Garden." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/STX Films)
By Catholic News Service Fourth big-screen adaptation of the 1911 children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, directed by Marc Munden from a screenplay by Jack Thorne. 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’ […]
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