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By: The Catholic Post - October 24, 2019 -
Movie Review
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad
Cynthia Erivo stars in a scene from the movie "Harriet." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Long-overdue but flawed drama chronicling the exploits of the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, Maryland-born Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo). When her owner (Mike Marunde) dies suddenly and his son (Joe Alwyn) threatens to sell her South, she successfully escapes. Connecting with other abolitionists (including Leslie Odom Jr. and Janelle […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 24, 2019 -
Living the Word
Father R. Michael Schaab
By Father R. Michael Schaab Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Oct. 27 Sirach 35:12-14,16-18; Psalm 34:2-3,17-18,19,23; 2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18; Luke 18:9-14 — Today’s readings have much to say about prayer. The traditional division of prayer into Praise, Contrition, Petition and Thanksgiving can help us address the topic. The easiest to address is Praise. The Psalm states, “I […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 23, 2019 -
News Article
Bonnie Engstrom, weDignify
People are invited to join weDignify to “Celebrate Life!” on Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Spalding Pastoral Center, 419 N.E. Madison Ave., in Peoria. The event will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and feature Bonnie Engstrom. Writer, blogger, speaker and author of “61 Minutes to a Miracle: Fulton Sheen and a True Story […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 23, 2019 -
News Article
Father Michael Driscoll, Mental health, Peoria Notre Dame
Father Michael Driscoll will present the six-part series at Peoria Notre Dame High School.
“Catholic Sanity: A Catholic Approach to Mental Health” is the theme for a series of six adult education sessions that will be presented by Father Michael Driscoll on Wednesdays, starting Oct. 30. The sessions will be held at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Peoria Notre Dame High School, 5105 N. Sheridan Road. Father Driscoll […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 23, 2019 -
Movie Review
Tyrese Gibson stars in a scene from the movie "Black and Blue." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service Director Deon Taylor’s action thriller succeeds better in maintaining suspense about the fate of its protagonist than in commenting on current social issues, as Peter A. Dowling’s script clearly aspires to do. An African American rookie in the New Orleans police department (Naomie Harris) accidentally witnesses the murder of a drug […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 23, 2019 -
News Article
Lisa DeKezel
GALESBURG — OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center has a new president. On Nov. 18, Lisa DeKezel will assume responsibility for directing all internal operations, working to ensure access to affordable, high quality health care for the communities served by OSF St. Mary. She succeeds Jennifer Junis, who is now senior vice president for OSF […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 23, 2019 -
News Article
Little Company of Mary, merger, OSF HealthCare
Little Company of Mary Hospital in Chicago. (Photo from LCM Health News)
The boards of OSF HealthCare and Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers have adopted a definitive merger agreement and decided on a new name for the major facility serving Chicago’s southwest side: OSF HealthCare Little Company of Mary Medical Center. The announcement was made Oct. 9 and the merger is anticipated to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 18, 2019 -
Movie Review
Zoey Deutch, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson star in a scene from the movie "Zombieland: Double Tap." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Follow-up to the 2009 horror-comedy combination charts the further adventures of the original’s central quartet — Jesse Eisenberg’s amiable nebbish, Woody Harrelson’s macho gunman, Emma Stone’s commitment-averse loner and her fancy-free sibling, played by Abigail Breslin — as they continue to fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-craving […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sleeping Beauty
Elle Fanning, Angelina Jolie and Sam Riley star in a scene from the movie "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service This routine follow-up to the 2014 live action reworking of the classic fairy tale, and 1959 animated Disney feature, “Sleeping Beauty” reverses the anti-traditional thrust of its predecessor by having its young heroine, the once-cursed Queen Aurora (Elle Fanning), accept the proposal of her longtime suitor, Prince Philip (Harris Dickinson). But […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2019 -
Movie Review
Appearing in the animated movie "The Addams Family" are Charlize Theron as the voice of Morticia Addams, Chloe Grace Moretz as the voice of Wednesday Addams, Oscar Isaac as the voice of Gomez Addams, Finn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley and Nick Kroll as the voice of Uncle Fester. The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
By Catholic News Service Those endearing ghouls created by Charles Addams in his 1930s cartoons for The New Yorker magazine inspire yet another big-screen adaptation, an animated film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. Gomez (voice of Oscar Isaac) and his wife Morticia (voice of Charlize Theron), face parenting issues with both their children, […]
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