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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Gabrielle Union and Colman Domingo star in a scene from the movie "The Birth of a Nation." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars in this moving dramatization of the life of Nat Turner, an enslaved Virginian whose eponymous 1831 rebellion represented the most serious challenge of its kind ever posed to slavery in the antebellum South. Taught to read at an early age, Turner becomes a preacher whose […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Andrew Daly, Thomas Barbusca, Griffin Gluck and Isabela Moner star in a scene from the movie "Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/CBS Films)
By Catholic News Service Parents may not care for the underlying message of this comedy for kids in which an artistically gifted but mildly troubled preteen (Griffin Gluck) rebels against the excessive discipline enforced by the rigid principal (Andy Daly) of his new school. Though his revolt, in which he’s aided by his best friend (Thomas […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Lupita Nyong'o and Madina Nalwanga star in a scene from the movie "Queen of Katwe." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service A glorious drama that applies the traditional formula of an uplifting sports film to the real-life story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), and then goes in unexpected directions to expose the scars horrific poverty can leave on the human soul. In adapting a book by Tim Crothers, director […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 7, 2016 -
Movie Review
Emily Blunt stars in a scene from the movie "The Girl on the Train." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.(CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Seamy suburban melodrama about the intersecting lives of an unemployed alcoholic (Emily Blunt), her ex-husband (Justin Theroux), his new wife (Rebecca Ferguson) and a couple (Haley Bennett and Luke Evans) who live in the same neighborhood. In adapting Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel, director Tate Taylor elicits an intense performance from Blunt, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
News Article
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Peter Howard, Heroic Families, Our Lady of Fatima, St. Patrick Parish in Washington
Dr. Peter Howard is author of "The Woman: Thy Mystery of Mary as Mediatrix in the Teaching of Fulton J. Sheen."
WASHINGTON — Marian consecration, Our Lady of Fatima, and the prophetic wisdom of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be the focus of a parish retreat led by Dr. Peter Howard on Saturday, Oct. 22, and Sunday, Oct. 23, at St. Patrick Church, 705 E. Jefferson. A nationally known speaker who recently relocated to the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
News Article
Champaign, Fatima, Geneseo, Monmouth, Peoria, public square, rallies, rosary, Thomasboro
(The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
Public Square Rosary Rallies are being organized in several communities of the Diocese of Peoria on Saturday, Oct. 15, to pray for our nation and the conversion of sinners as Our Lady of Fatima requested. According to the organization America Needs Fatima, the rosary will be prayed at more than 16,000 public locations around the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
News Article
Apparition Hill, Divine Mercy, Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, Medjugorje, movies, Outcasts
“Apparition Hill” to open Oct. 7-13 at Bloomington and Peoria theaters Cinemas in Peoria and Bloomington will be among those screening the new documentary “Apparition Hill,” which is opening in 35 cities this Friday, Oct. 7. The film explores the alleged appearances of Mary in the village along the border of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia through […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Living the Word
By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Oct. 9 2 Kings 5:14-17; Psalm 98:1,2-3,3-4; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19 Today’s readings are about those who are outsiders, people on the fringe. They are about the people in our lives who find themselves in despair and hopelessness, who live on the edge. They also […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Movie Review
Eva Green, Asa Butterfield and Georgia Pemberton star in a scene from the movie "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Following the mysterious death of his beloved grandfather (Terence Stamp), a Florida teen (Asa Butterfield) convinces his dad (Chris O’Dowd) to take him to the remote island off the coast of Wales where the old man had been sent during World War II to see if the otherworldly tales grandpa used […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jon Daly and Leslie Jones star in a scene from the movie "Masterminds." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Relativity Studios)
By Catholic News Service This vehicle for Zach Galifianakis and a group of drawling actors from NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” is a comic recounting of the 1997 “hillbilly heist” from an armored-car firm in North Carolina. Galifianakis plays David Ghantt, who stole $17.3 million from Loomis Fargo & Co., only to be tripped up at […]
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