It’s too simplistic to refer to “Sorry, Baby” (A24) as a #MeToo movie. Yet the film is topical as well as important and compelling.
Movie Review: Sorry, Baby
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Father Pete Literal will retire after ministering for decades in prisons, parishes and cultural outreach
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement
Father Pete D. Literal, the pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Hydes who will retire July 1 at age 73, took a long road to becoming a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Need for more Catholic Army chaplains to serve military flock as great as ever, say two priests
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It’s a question often asked about Catholic chaplains serving in the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services: Are there enough of them for the estimated 250,000 Catholics — 25 percent percent of the U.S. armed forces — serving worldwide?
High court sends Catholic groups’ challenge to N.Y. abortion-coverage mandate back to state courts
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Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
The fight by religious groups against New York state’s abortion mandate requiring most private insurance plans to cover abortion has renewed life.
How faith-based higher education can best serve society is focus of symposium
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Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News
The second convening of the Commission on Faith-Based Colleges and Universities of the American Council on Education was the first for Holy Cross Father Robert A. Dowd, who became the 18th president of the University of Notre Dame last September.
‘The Ritual’ seeks to portray exorcism respectfully
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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
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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’
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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