Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB
By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time/Nov. 5 Malachi 1:14b — 2:2b,8-10; Psalm 13:1,2,3; 1 Thessalonians 2:7b-9,13; Matthew 23:1-12 Christian Herter was running hard for re-election as governor of Massachusetts, and one day he arrived late at a barbecue. He’d had no breakfast or lunch, and he was famished. As he moved down […]
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Laura Vandervoort stars in a scene from the movie "Jigsaw." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Lions Gate)
By Catholic News Service With its franchise’s shock value long since played out, this eighth “Saw” outing, yet another exercise in butchery, accompanied by siren-wail screaming, quickly descends into self-parody. The five trapped victims here, as always in this series, face gross-out hacking in a series of claustrophobic enclosures. Adding to their torment, a marionette, […]
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Alex Hassell, Glenn Fleshler and Jack Conley star in a scene from the movie "Suburbicon." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Paramount Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Failed black comedy, set in the Levittown-like suburb of the title during the early 1950s, in which a young boy (Noah Jupe) witnesses the murder of his mother (Julianne Moore) at the hands of a pair of brutish intruders (Glenn Fleshler and Alex Hassell) during an unexplained home invasion. His father’s […]
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Judi Dench and Ali Fazal star in a scene from the movie "Victoria and Abdul." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Endearing historical drama in which, on the sole basis of being tall and handsome, a 24-year-old prison clerk (Ali Fazal) in Agra, India, is chosen to present a ceremonial coin to Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) during her 1887 golden jubilee. After a four-month journey in the company of a grouchy fellow […]
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Miles Teller, Beulah Koale and Joe Cole star in a scene from the movie "Thank You for Your Service." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Powerful drama about the devastating impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on soldiers returning from war, directed by Jason Hall and based on David Finkel’s eponymous nonfiction book. An Army sergeant (Miles Teller) returns to Kansas with his squad after a tour of duty in Iraq, haunted by the death of one […]
Continue readingANNAWAN — The Peoria Diocesan Council of Catholic Women is planning a Day of Remembrance for All Souls for Monday, Nov. 6, at Sacred Heart Church, 305 W. South Ave. The spiritual director will be Father Timothy Sauppé. The former pastor of the Annawan parish, Father Sauppé now serves as pastor of St. Mary in […]
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Gerald Butler stars in a scene from the movie "Geostorm." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Ben Rothstein, Warner Bros. Pictures)
By Catholic News Service After a network of weather-controlling satellites designed to overcome the effects of global warming is sabotaged and begins causing a series of overwhelming natural disasters, its designer (Gerard Butler), his estranged brother (Jim Sturgess), a State Dept. official, and the bureaucrat’s live-in girlfriend (Abbie Cornish), a Secret Service agent, team to […]
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Cassi Davis and Tyler Perry star in a scene from the movie "Boo 2! A Madea Halloween." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Chip Bergmann, Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service In this follow-up to the 2016 original, writer-director Tyler Perry’s long-running muumuu-draped moral force — played by Perry himself in drag, of course — sets out to rescue her grand-niece (Diamond White) from a fraternity party held at a campground where several people had been murdered some years before. The result […]
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A poster for the movie "Same Kind of Different as Me" is displayed in this promotional photo for the film. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Uneven recounting of the real-life events through which a wealthy art dealer (Greg Kinnear) formed a seemingly unlikely friendship with a volatile but fundamentally decent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou). Anxious to repair the damage a recent affair has done to his marriage, the salesman reluctantly agrees to accompany his spiritually attuned […]
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Michael Fassbender stars in a scene from the movie "The Snowman." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Director Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novel occasionally dabbles in penny-dreadful sensationalism, then returns to plodding wearily across the frozen landscape of its unconvincing mystery story. Set primarily in Oslo, Norway, the film tracks the efforts of a gifted but alcoholism-plagued police detective (Michael Fassbender) to catch a […]
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