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Kurt Jensen

Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publisher serving millions of Catholics globally through its publishing and communication services. Kurt Jensen writes for OSV News from Washington.

‘The Ritual’ seeks to portray exorcism respectfully

June 5, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

One thing seems certain about the exorcism-themed movie “The Ritual” (XYZ); it is not intended as the first installment in a franchise.

Future pope helped found Villanovans for Life, marched against Roe v. Wade

May 29, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News

The four years Robert F. Prevost spent at Villanova University in Philadelphia — from the fall of 1973 until May 1977, when he graduated with a degree in mathematics and began his novitiate with the Augustinian order — included the opening salvos of the pro-life movement.

Movie Review: ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’

May 28, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The Grim Reaper will have his revenge on those who try to cheat him of his haul. Such is the dubious message of the franchise whose sixth installment, “Final Destination Bloodlines” (Warner Bros.), maintains the series’ high splatter factor while throwing in some “moral” posturing that only makes the film more repellant.

Broglio: As successor of Peter, pope confirms us ‘in faith,’ calls us ‘back to the Gospel’

May 19, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Bishops, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The election of Pope Leo XIV made Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, recall a vivid memory that went all the way back to first grade at the former St. Ann School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Georgetown’s final ‘Francis Factor’ panel remembers late pope’s legacy

May 7, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News

The panel discussion, on the eve of the Vatican conclave beginning May 7, was the final “Francis Factor” discussion for the university’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

Movie Review: The Legend of Ochi

May 6, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Though it has the relationship between a teen girl and a cuddly creature at its core, “The Legend of Ochi” (A24) is not a sunny children’s movie.

Oldest religious sister in U.S. turns 112; ‘Her presence, her joy’ is real, says prioress

April 23, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Saints, Vocations, World News

Having turned 112 on Easter at Queen of the Rosary Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville, N.Y. — a supercentenarian for two years, and a member of her order since 1931 — she is, like all members of the body of Christ, still able to participate in the ministry of presence.

Erin Cahill stars in Hallmark’s ‘Journey to You’

April 16, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

It took the makers of “Journey to You,” the faith-based Hallmark Channel movie debuting April 19, just two efficient weeks in February to film one fictional American woman’s trek of the Camino. And, in lieu of Galicia, they based themselves in the center of the country, around Madrid.

Judge issues split decision on Illinois law opposed by pro-life pregnancy centers

April 10, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News

In a split ruling, a federal judge in Illinois permanently blocked a provision of the state’s 2016 Health Care Right of Conscience Act, which attorneys representing pro-life doctors and the state’s 100 pregnancy resource centers said would compel their clients “to promote pro-abortion talking points with women in need.”

Movie Review: ‘A Minecraft Movie’

April 4, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Motion pictures based on popular video games may have found their perfected form in “A Minecraft Movie” (Warner Bros.).

‘The Resurrection of the Christ’ to begin filming

March 31, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

“The Resurrection of the Christ” is slated to start filming in August at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios. The film’s release is expected in 2026.

Man charged with terrorism for alleged threat to ‘butcher’ Memphis Catholic churchgoers

March 26, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

A 30-year-old man believed to be homeless was arrested and charged with the commission of an act of terrorism following a threat he allegedly emailed to a music minister at St. Louis Catholic Church in Memphis, Tenn., claiming he wanted to “butcher” people in the church with a machete.

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