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By: The Catholic Post - August 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
profanity, strong sexual content
Keith L. Williams, Jacob Tremblay and Brady Noon star in a scene from the movie in "Good Boys." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Three youthful actors (Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon and Keith L. Williams) are shamefully exploited as the script of this supposed comedy has them interacting with sex toys, online pornography and drugs. While the underlying implication throughout director and co-writer Gene Stupnitsky’s immoral film is, paradoxically, that the tween characters are far […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Red, voiced by Jason Sudeikis, Chuck, voiced by Josh Gad, and Bomb, voiced by Danny McBride, appear in "The Angry Birds Movie 2." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service The filmmakers behind this animated follow-up to the 2016 original create not one but two romantic subplots, teach a heartwarming moral lesson about cooperation even when you don’t like someone else, throw in a slew of ’90s references to entertain the grown-ups, and mix an air of unhinged, deeply classical silliness […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
Movie Review
Brianne Tju stars in a scene from the movie "47 Meters Down: Uncaged." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Jumpy follow-up to the 2017 original in which a quartet of American teen girls living in Mexico (Corinne Foxx, Sistine Stallone, Sophie Nelisse, and Brianne Tju) goes scuba diving in the submerged, shark-infested ruins of a Mayan city where they become trapped and are forced to fight for their lives. Returning […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
The Sheen Corner
By Katie Bogner “As a custom which started in kindergarten, I always wrote ‘JMJ’ at the top of the blackboard, as I do on every piece of paper before I write — and which I hope will someday be on my tombstone. In answer to many letters, the public finally recognized me and the words […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
News Article, Uncategorized
Anyone who has experienced a Cursillo weekend is invited to take part in a day of renewal planned for Saturday, Aug. 24. Sponsored by Peoria Area Cursillo, it will be held at the Spalding Pastoral Center, 419 N.E. Madison Ave., in Peoria. The theme for the day, which will be led by Dave Bartak, is […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 14, 2019 -
Featured Article
After exposing the Blessed Sacrament for adoration, Deacon Kevin Zeeb of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Morton leads the Holy Hour for Priests on Aug. 4. As they prayed, participants remembered Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, and many priests serving in the Diocese of Peoria by name. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
Priests serving the Diocese of Peoria received prayerful encouragement Aug. 4 as the Bishop’s Commission on Women hosted a Holy Hour for Priests. Among those remembered by name was Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC. About 50 women, children and men gathered in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel at the Spalding Renewal Center in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 9, 2019 -
Movie Review
drama, Elisabeth Moss, Hell's Kitchen, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish
Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Elizabeth Moss star in a scene from the movie "The Kitchen." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Morally muddled tale, set in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, circa 1978, of three mob wives (Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss) who, after their husbands are imprisoned, successfully supplant the gang leader (Myk Watford) who promised but failed to take care of them in their spouses’ absence. With […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 9, 2019 -
Movie Review
Aldis Hodge, California Innocence Project, Greg Kinnear, Tom Shadyac
Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear star in a scene from the movie "Brian Banks." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Bleecker Street)
By Catholic News Service Fact-based drama, directed by Tom Shadyac from a script by Doug Atchison, about the football star of the title (Aldis Hodge) and the seemingly insurmountable hurdles he faced after being imprisoned on a false charge of rape. Xosha Roquemore plays his accuser while Greg Kinnear portrays the head of the California […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 9, 2019 -
Featured Article
Father Lee Brokaw distrubutes Communion to a participant in this spring's A Call to Catholic Men of Faith, the annual men's march and Mass in Peoria. A new Pew study about the level of Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist showed that a majority of Catholics do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ. (The Catholic Post file photo/Tom Dermody)
By Mark Pattison / Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new study about the level of Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist showed that a majority of Catholics do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ. The report drew […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Eva Longoria, Isabela Moner and Michael Pena star in a scene from the movie "Dora and the Lost City of Gold." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Paramount Pictures)
By Catholic News Service This live-action adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series “Dora the Explorer,” directed by James Bobin, is that Hollywood rarity: a sunny, fun-filled movie with valuable lessons about kindness, friendship and tolerance. Taking the place of the 7-year-old featured on the small screen, a teenage Dora (Isabela Moner) is sent to […]
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