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By: The Catholic Post - April 22, 2016 -
Movie Review
Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain star in a scene from the movie "The Huntsman: Winter's War." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Positioned to bookend the action of 2012’s “Snow White and the Huntsman,” this lavishly-staged adventure — at once a prequel and a sequel to the original — is well intentioned but dull and derivative. Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and screenwriters Evan Spiliotopoulos and Craig Mazin have doubled up on everything from the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 21, 2016 -
Editorial
farmers, Msgr. Mack, planting
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following was submitted by the Diocesan Council of Farmers. It was written by Msgr. Thomas Mack, episcopal vicar of rural life. The warmer weather that is starting to spread throughout the diocese is a welcome sign to us all that the spring has finally arrived. It can also be seen The […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 20, 2016 -
Living the Word
Ascension, Easter, Pentecost, Schaab, Scripture
Father R. Michael Schaab
By Father R. Michael Schaab Fifth Sunday of Easter/April 24 Acts 14:21-27; Psalm 145:8-9,10-11,12-13; Revelation 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a,34-35 The readings for the Fifth and Sixth Sundays of Easter direct the Church to reflect on its own nature in two ways — externally and internally. Externally we face the issue of expansion, and internally we struggle […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kevin Costner, center, stars in a scene from the movie "Criminal." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Hollow mind-swap yarn in which the memory of a CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) who was killed while delivering ransom money is transferred into the brain of a sociopathic murderer (Kevin Costner). As presented in Douglas Cook and David Weisberg’s script, the general idea appears to be that if a smart guy’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell star in a scene from the movie "The Boss." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service After a prison stint for insider trading, a disgraced businesswoman (Melissa McCarthy, who also co-wrote the script) moves in with her former assistant (Kristen Bell) and the secretary’s preteen daughter (Ella Anderson). While minding the youngster, she strikes on the idea of staging a comeback by starting a for-profit version of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Anthony Anderson, Common and Cedric the Entertainer star in a scene from the movie "Barbershop: The Next Cut." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Earnest but heavy-handed debates about how to deal with gang violence are interspersed with frequently vulgar jokes in this seriocomic portrayal of life on Chicago’s South Side. With the shop of the title now augmented by a beauty parlor (led by Regina Hall), much of the barbed chitchat exchanged between the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Neel Sethi stars in a scene from the movie "The Jungle Book." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service This adaptation of British author Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of stories about the adventures of a “man-cub” (Neel Sethi) raised by animals offers delightful, good-natured, heartfelt entertainment for the entire family, the most easily frightened tots possibly excepted. Orphaned as a baby, the boy is led by a kindly panther (voice […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 8, 2016 -
World/National News
Aleteia.org, fashion, For Her, magazine, Women
Cynthia Dermody, editor in chief of "For Her" magazine, said the new online magazine launched by Aleteia was created for "the modern Catholic woman." (CNS/handout)
By Julie Asher, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Women’s fashion and lifestyle magazines abound on the Internet and in print, but there’s still a void in what those offer to women, according to the editor of a new online magazine launched by the global Catholic network Aleteia.org. For Her — forher.aleteia.org — was created […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 8, 2016 -
World/National News
Children spend time with their grandmother on the front porch of their home in Hillsdale, Mo. Pope Francis' postsynodal apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), was released April 8. (CNS/Sid Hastings)
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service Vatican Letter/Backgrounder and Analysis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ hymn to love and family life is more like a country song than a Disney tune. In “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis’ postsynodal apostolic exhortation on the family, there is passion and devotion, but also heartache […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 8, 2016 -
Featured Article, World/National News
Family, Pope Francis
Copies of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), are seen during the document's release at the Vatican April 8. The exhortation is the concluding document of the 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on the family. (CNS/Paul Haring)
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The same mercy and patience that are essential for building a strong family must be shown to those whose families are in trouble or have broken up, Pope Francis said in his highly anticipated postsynodal apostolic exhortation. The document, “‘Amoris Laetitia’ (The Joy of Love), […]
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