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By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2021 -
Movie Review
Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith star in a scene from the movie "Last Night in Soho." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Parisa Taghizadeh, Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service What begins as a paean to the London of the swinging 60s rapidly turns into something more menacing as a psychic fashion student (Thomasin McKenzie) in the present-day British capital who is obsessed with the earlier era journeys back to it in a series of dreams during which she witnesses scenes […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2021 -
Movie Review
Chloe Zhao, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Marvel Comics, Richard Madden, sci-fi
Kumail Nanjiani stars in a scene from the movie "Eternals." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Marvel Studios)
By Catholic News Service Director and co-writer Chloé Zhao’s big but empty Marvel Comics adaptation follows an ensemble of alien superheroes (most prominently Gemma Chan and Richard Madden) dispatched to Earth by a higher power (voice of David Kaye) thousands of years ago to protect humans from marauding monsters. After discovering in the present day […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2021 -
Movie Review
C. Henry Chaisson, horror, intense gory violence, Jesse Plemons, Keri Russell, Nick Antosca, occult themes, Scott Cooper
Keri Russell stars in a scene from the movie "Antlers." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Set in an impoverished community in rural Oregon, this deeply unsettling horror film charts the efforts of a middle school teacher (Keri Russell) to discover what’s behind the strange behavior of a troubled student (Jeremy T. Thomas) whose mysterious travails eventually turn out to be connected to a series of bizarre […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2021 -
World/National News
U.S. President Joe Biden greets Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican on Oct. 29. (CNS/Vatican Media)
By Carol Glatz / Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden had an unusually long meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29, talking about the climate crisis and poverty, among other issues. The Vatican described the president’s meetings with both the pope and with top Vatican diplomats as consisting […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
Movie Review
animated, Ed Helms, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Zach Galifianakis
This is a scene from the animated movie "Ron's Gone Wrong." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/20th Century Studios via EPK TV)
By Catholic News Service Endearing animated comedy in which a socially isolated middle schooler (voice of Jack Dylan Grazer) yearns for the robot toy that has become a status symbol among his classmates. But, when he receives one as a birthday gift from his cash-strapped, widowed dad (voice of Ed Helms) and Bulgarian immigrant grandmother […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
Featured Article
Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 10 to open the process that will lead up to the assembly of the world Synod of Bishops in 2023. (CNS/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A synod calls on everyone to become experts in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis said, formally opening the process leading up to the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2023. “Celebrating a synod means walking on the same road, together” just […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
News Article
John J. Gibson
A funeral Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, at St. Joseph Church in Peoria for John J. Gibson, who served as development director for the Diocese of Peoria from 2005 until his retirement in 2019. Gibson, who was also a past president of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation board […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
News Article
Ingrid Ruscheinski shows Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka some of the garments that go into the layettes prepared for families in need by the Christ Child Society of Central Illinois. (The Catholic Post/Jennifer Willems)
Members of the Christ Child Society of Central Illinois were thanked for their ministry to newborns and families in need when Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka visited their Peoria workroom on Oct. 6. “I want to offer a word of encouragement and gratitude for what you are doing,” he said after touring the space, located in […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
Columnists
My Vocation is Love / Lindsey Weishar I was recently reminded of the idea that our lives are built upon story. Anyone who’s ever had a conversation knows that the sharing of one story often inspires the sharing of another. It’s how we relate to each other. When it comes to our faith, we’re encouraged […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 21, 2021 -
Columnists
The statue of Our Lady of the Smile at the National Shrine and Museum of St. Thérèse in Darien is a replica of the statue with the healing smile that Thérèse had a vision of on Pentecost Sunday, 1883. (Provided photo/Paul Moore)
In My Father’s House / Paul Thomas Moore My wife and I attended the monthly first Friday Mass at Snyder Village Retirement Community in Metamora on Oct. 1, the feast day of St. Thérèse, who promised to spend her Heaven letting fall a shower of roses. The Mass celebrant was Father Vien Van Do of […]
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