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By: The Catholic Post - November 14, 2018 -
Movie Review
Jovan Adepo, Julius Avery, Wyatt Russell
Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell star in a scene from the movie "Overlord." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service This weird, wild but surprisingly effective blend of war story and chiller from director Julius Avery is far too gory and gruesome for most moviegoers. Those with a taste for the macabre and a strong stomach can follow the exploits of a humane GI (Jovan Adepo) and his more ruthless commander […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 9, 2018 -
News Article, World/National News
Voters line up prior to casting their ballots at a polling station in Nesconset, N.Y., on Election Day Nov. 6. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
By Dennis Sadowski / Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — An Oregon measure that would have banned state funding for elective and late-term abortions was defeated by voters Nov. 6, while an amendment to the West Virginia constitution stating that women do not have a right to an abortion was passed by a narrow margin. Alabamans […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 8, 2018 -
Book Review
Book, detective, Jim Courter, Macomb, mystery, Rhymes with Fool
Jim Courter is a writer and emeritus writing instructor at Western Illinois University, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a winner of an Illinois Arts Council award for short fiction. This year his first novel, “Rhymes With Fool,” a detective mystery with a Catholic protagonist, was published by Peasantry Press in Winnipeg. Courter lives in Macomb […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 8, 2018 -
Book Review
Various materials can be used inside the Catholic Journaling Bible, ranging from regular pencils and pens to fancier gel pens or brush tip pens, as well as watercolor paints, colored pencils, stickers, and markers.
By Katie Bogner In centuries past, quiet scriptoriums were once filled with monks diligently copying by hand the Books of Sacred Scripture. The scribes provided texts long before the time of printing presses and would spend years making these invaluable copies. At times, it wasn’t just text that was the work of their hands. These […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2018 -
Movie Review
Benedict Cumberbatch, Dr. Seuss, Grinch, Theodor Geisel
The Grinch, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, is seen with Max the dog in the animated movie "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service This adaptation of Theodor Geisel’s 1957 children’s fable “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” is an extravagant animated adventure, directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney and narrated by Pharrell Williams. The eponymous grump (voice of Benedict Cumberbatch) lives high above the hamlet of Whoville with his loyal dog by this side. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2018 -
Movie Review
Claire Foy, Stieg Larsson
Claire Foy stars in a scene from the movie "The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling.(CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Bitter espionage drama, set in Sweden, in which the title character (Claire Foy), a skilled computer hacker with a dark past who also dabbles in vigilantism, agrees to help a disaffected U.S. intelligence operative (Stephen Merchant) steal a program he created from the National Security Agency. Since the program enables anyone […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 7, 2018 -
Living the Word
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Nov. 11 1 Kings 17:10-16; Psalm 146:7,8-9, 9-10; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 The Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time recounts the story of the widow’s mite. Considering who this woman was and what she did, we might want to call this the story of the widow’s might. The passage begins with Jesus sternly […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 2, 2018 -
Movie Review
Tiffany Haddish, Tika Sumpter, Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg
Tika Sumpter, Whoopi Goldberg and Tiffany Haddish star in a scene from the movie "Nobody's Fool." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service This vulgar romantic comedy from writer-director Tyler Perry traffics in a flippant, degraded view of human sexuality. At the urging of her mother (Whoopi Goldberg), a straitlaced advertising executive (Tika Sumpter) reluctantly takes in her wild, otherwise homeless ex-con sister (Tiffany Haddish) while also dealing with professional challenges (shared by workmate […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 1, 2018 -
News Article
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is a news release issued by the Diocese of Peoria on Thursday, Nov. 1. — Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C., of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria, upon the unanimous advice of the Diocesan Review Commission, has required these three retired priests to step down from public ministry due to each having credible allegations of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 1, 2018 -
Movie Review
Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Eugenio Derbez and Richard E. Grant star in a scene from the movie "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Visually rich but dramatically impoverished fantasy in which, while searching for the key that will open a Christmas gift left for her by her recently deceased mother, a teenage girl (Mackenzie Foy) from Victorian London finds herself in an alternate world divided into the territories of the title. There, she learns, […]
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