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By: The Catholic Post - November 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Ewan McGregor, Stephen King
Ewan McGregor stars in a scene from the movie "Doctor Sleep." 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 Disturbing horror sequel to 1980’s “The Shining” finds the psychic little boy of that film grown into a troubled hospice orderly (Ewan McGregor) who unites with a similarly gifted teen girl (Kyliegh Curran) to combat an occult band of wanderers (led by Rebecca Ferguson) who torture and murder clairvoyant kids and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 8, 2019 -
Living the Word
Shawn Reeves
By Shawn Reeves Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Nov. 10 2 Maccabees 7:1-2,9-14; Psalm 17:1,5-6,8,15; 2 Thessalonians 2:16 — 3:5; Luke 20:27-38 Rarely does someone grow in understanding without asking questions, but not all questions are honest ones. In today’s Gospel, Jesus is encountered with a rather insincere question about a hypothetical situation. The question is insincere […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2019 -
Movie Review
Henry Golding and Emilia Clarke star in a scene from the movie "Last Christmas." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Awkward and problematic blend of romantic comedy and drama tells the conversion story of a selfish, thoughtless young woman (Emilia Clarke), a childhood refugee from ex-Yugoslavia living in London, whose life is transformed after she meets and falls for a mysterious, sensitive stranger (Henry Golding). Her reform benefits the stern but […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2019 -
Movie Review
John Cena, John Leguizamo, Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, Tyler Mane
John Cena and Christian Convery star in a scene from the movie "Playing With Fire." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Generally harmless but painfully unfunny comedy in which the superintendent (John Cena) of a group of smokejumpers (Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo and Tyler Mane) gives temporary shelter at their rural headquarters to a teen girl (Brianna Hildebrand) and her two younger siblings (Christian Convery and Finley Rose Slater) after their family’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2019 -
Book Review
"Theology of Home" is a collection of writings that teach about how God can and should be found in the places we dwell. It is coauthored by Carrie Gress, Noelle Mering, and Megan Schriber.
Reviewed by Katie Bogner “Love, by nature, is meant to be shared. Like a light coming on in the darkness, it isn’t contained but rather spreads and beckons others to come. Our homes can be reflections of, and participants in, this light the more we mirror God’s brilliance.” While having dinner with friends recently, one […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2019 -
Movie Review
Midway, Pearl Harbor, Roland Emmerich, Second World War
Keean Johnson and Ed Skrein star in a scene from the movie "Midway." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Vivid fact-based epic recounting the period from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, to the Navy’s decisive victory in the battle of the title in June 1942, a triumph that turned the tide in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The ensemble drama follows, among […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 5, 2019 -
News Article
Deacon Frank Eaton
PEORIA HEIGHTS — A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church here for Deacon Francis Leander Eaton, a permanent deacon who served the parish for 11 years prior to reaching senior status in 2008. Deacon Eaton died at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 1, 2019 -
Movie Review
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton star in a scene from the movie "Terminator: Dark Fate." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount Pictures)
By Catholic News Service There’s a feminist cast to this average sci-fi action picture, intended as a continuation of the first two films in the franchise that began in 1984. The target (Lina Hamilton) of the original time-traveling Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) unites with an enhanced human from the future (Mackenzie Davis) to protect a young […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 1, 2019 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Magda, voiced by Anjelica Huston, Leopold, voiced by Omar Sy, PB, voiced by Alec Baldwin, Bertha and Jade, voiced by Heidi Klum, and Lemmy, voiced by James Franco, appear in the movie "Arctic Dogs." The Catholic News Service Classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service This animated feature, directed and co-written by Aaron Woodley, follows the exploits of a fox (voice of Jeremy Renner) who dreams of joining the top dogs (voices of Michael Madsen, Laurie Holden and Donny Falsetti) who work for his home town’s delivery service. Achieving his ambition, he crosses paths with a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 1, 2019 -
News Article
Ashley Bratcher, who plays Abby Johnson, is pictured in a scene from the movie "Unplanned," the story of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, and her decision to join the pro-life movement. The film will be shown Nov. 10 in Galesburg. (CNS/Unplanned.com)
GALESBURG — As 40 Days for Life comes to an end in Galesburg, Knox County Right to Life is sponsoring a showing of “Unplanned” on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m. It will be hosted by Bethel Baptist Church, 1196 N. Academy St. “Unplanned” is the story of how Abby Johnson went from being the […]
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