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By: The Catholic Post - December 9, 2016 -
Movie Review
David Mazouz stars in a scene from the movie "Incarnate." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Director Brad Peyton’s mostly secular addition to the exorcism subgenre centers on a burned-out victim of demonic activity (Aaron Eckhart) who has been targeted by the nether world because of his ability to enter the minds of the possessed and rescue them from their plight. At the request of a Vatican […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 -
News Article
The cast of "The Third Sunday of Advent" is pictured during a recent rehearsal for the original comedy-drama to be performed at St. Anthony Parish in Hoopeston on Dec. 10. It was written by parishioner Tom Sweeney (upper right). )Provided photo/Jordan Crook, Hoopeston Chronicle)
HOOPESTON — St. Anthony Parish here will present an original play, “The Third Sunday of Advent,” at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10, in the church hall, 423 S. 3rd St. The comedy-drama was written by parishioner Tom Sweeney, who taught dramatic writing at Homewood-Flossmoor High School for 34 years and now lives in rural […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 -
News Article
Father Rogers Byambaasa, chaplain at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, blesses a new hybrid operating room on Nov. 23. Assisting is Deacon Gayle Cyrulik. Provided photo/Libby Allison
BLOOMINGTON — Blessing and dedication ceremonies took place Nov. 23 at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center here for a new hybrid operating room and post-anesthesia care unit. The blessing culminated two years of work on the projects, whose combined construction and equipment costs were $8.9 million. Nearly three dozen staff members — many of them […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 -
News Article
Father Daniel Ebker, Father Dominic Vitaliano, and Msgr. Richard Pricco concelebrate the Harvest Mass for the Macomb Vicariate on Nov. 15 at St. Augustine Church in St. Augustine. Provided photo/Kelly Zimmerman
ST. AUGUSTINE — Several area parishes were represented when a Harvest Mass for the Macomb Vicariate was hosted Nov. 15 by St. Augustine Parish here. “It was a great opportunity to give thanks to almighty God for the bountiful harvest and to see other Catholics from different parts of the vicariate,” said Father Dominic Vitaliano, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 30, 2016 -
Living the Word
Father Timothy Hepner
By Father Timothy Hepner Second Sunday of Advent/Dec. 4 Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,12-13,17; Romans 15:4-9; Matthew 3:1-12 Diogenes, one of the founders of the ancient school of philosophy called cynicism, was a crude and disruptive figure whose life was a running commentary on the insincerity of most men. Living in a barrel outside the city […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 27, 2016 -
News Article
Sister Jozefa Seskar, OSB
ROCK ISLAND — Sister Jozefa Seskar, OSB, who ministered in food service for many years at St. Mary Monastery and St. Mary Academy, both in Nauvoo, died Nov. 25, 2016, at St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island. She was 89. Visitation is planned for Monday, Nov. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 -
Movie Review
Billy Bob Thornton and Christina Hendricks star in a scene from the movie "Bad Santa 2." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS /Santamax Distribution)
By Catholic News Service As soul-deadening as its squalid urban setting, this follow-up to the 2003 original attempts to mine laughs out of human degradation. While planning a robbery at a corrupt Chicago charity, an alcoholic safe-cracker (Billy Bob Thornton) somehow manages to desecrate more Christmastime traditions than might seem possible. Director Mark Waters’ film […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 -
Movie Review
Warren Beatty stars in a scene from the movie "Rules Don't Apply." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service A small-town beauty queen and aspiring actress (Lily Collins) becomes one of the many fetching would-be stars summoned to 1950s Hollywood by eccentric RKO Pictures owner Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty, who also wrote and directed). Like her peers, she’s housed in style and assigned a chauffeur (Alden Ehrenreich), part of whose […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 -
Movie Review
Characters are shown in a scene from the animated movie "Moana." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service The eponymous heroine of Disney’s 56th animated film is a spunky Polynesian princess (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) who seeks not a boyfriend but a grand adventure on the high seas. Racing against time, she must join forces with a demigod (voice of Dwayne Johnson) to vanquish evil and restore the natural […]
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By: The Catholic Post - November 25, 2016 -
Movie Review
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in a scene from the movie "Allied." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Daniel Smith, Paramount)
By Catholic News Service In this World War II romantic drama from director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Steven Knight, a Canadian wing commander (Brad Pitt) and a French resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) with a murky past pretend to be husband and wife as part of an espionage operation before falling in love for real and […]
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