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Kurt Jensen

Movie Review: ‘Deliver Us’

September 27, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A blast furnace of blasphemy, “Deliver Us” (Magnet), also is an amalgam of gore and nudity. Co-director (with Cru Ennis) Lee Roy Kunz — who co-wrote the screenplay with Kane Kunz and also takes the film’s leading role — seems intent on giving us religiously themed horror with sexy elements and the power to shock.

Three more pro-life activists convicted on federal charges for blockade at abortion clinic

September 19, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Three more pro-life activists, including one famous in the 1980s for her abortion clinic “rescues,” were convicted Sept. 15 on federal felony charges of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, for a blockade at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.

Catholic religious sisters share their witness of ‘living radically the presence of the Gospel’

September 19, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Sister Norma spoke as part of a Sept. 14 online panel co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and its Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

Appeals court says Catholic group can install Stations of the Cross ‘prayer trail’

September 13, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Plans for the “Casa USA” campus — with backing from other Catholic health care organizations, individuals and the patronage of Lansing Bishop Earl A. Boyea — call for duplicating Padre Pio’s hospital complex for the first time outside of Italy, including an exact replica of the original friary church of the Capuchin Franciscan who is also known as St. Pius of Pietrelcina.

Relic of St. Jude, apostle and patron of desperate causes, begins US tour

September 8, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

The Relic of St. Jude tour begins in Chicago Sept. 9 at St. John Cantius Church. Scheduled stops for the remainder of 2023 include parishes in Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa, followed by Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan.

Movie Review: ‘The Nun II’

September 7, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

If jump-scares were an Olympic competition, director Michael Chaves’ horror sequel “The Nun II” (Warner Bros.) would undoubtedly be festooned with gold medals.

Five pro-life activists sent to federal prison for blocking Washington abortion clinic

August 31, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

After a raucous jury trial, five pro-life activists face as many as 11 years in federal prison for convictions to conspire to blockade a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.

Movie Review: ‘Blue Beetle’

August 22, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The resilience of the indestructible loving family, in this case, a Mexican American clan, forms the heart and soul of “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.).

Judge blocks Illinois law targeting pregnancy resource centers

August 4, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a new Illinois law, blocking the law’s restrictions on speech that was affecting the state’s 100 pregnancy resource centers.

Movie Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’

August 3, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In rebooting a decades-old franchise with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount), director and co-writer Jeff Rowe has the titular testudines take a meditative turn.

Suit filed against Vermont over new mandates for pregnancy resource centers

July 27, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

In a federal suit, the public interest firm Alliance Defending Freedom is suing the state of Vermont over a law, signed in May, that restricts advertising by the centers, considered an alternative to abortion clinics, and prohibits non-licensed health care professionals from working there.

Fundamental issues raised by twin Hollywood strikes

July 19, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

The 160,000 actors and 11,500 screenwriters involved in the action against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are concerned about two interrelated threats to their livelihood.

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