Oldest religious sister in U.S. turns 112; ‘Her presence, her joy’ is real, says prioress April 23, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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.
U.S. lawmakers push anti-discrimination bill to protect pregnancy resource centers March 26, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News The language of the latest incarnation of the Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act, a bill aimed at protecting more than 2,700 pregnancy resource centers nationwide from federal and state interference, is not radically different than the language of the one introduced in Congress last year.
4 pro-life activists found guilty, spared jail time for N.J. abortion clinic ‘rescue’ event March 17, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Four pro-life activists, including two pardoned by President Donald Trump in January for earlier convictions under the FACE Act, were found guilty of trespassing March 14 for their 2019 “rescue” at a New Jersey abortion clinic. However, they will not face jail time.
Group’s plans for ‘black mass’ at Kansas Statehouse prompt widespread outcry March 14, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, World News A Satanic group’s plans for a so-called “black mass” in the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka on March 28 have energized widespread Catholic condemnation.
Biblical tales old and new abound during Lent February 27, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Vintage biblical epics sprout like daffodils during Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5.
Movie Review: ‘I’m Still Here’ February 19, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics) is an adaptation of Marcelo Paiva’s 2015 memoir recounting how his family survived the worst years of Brazil’s military junta in the 1970s.
New abortion clinic trial in New Jersey involves a hermit, a friar and two laypeople February 19, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Despite President Donald Trump’s January pardons of 23 people convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, or FACE Act, at least one prosecution of pro-life activists accused of violating a local law by disrupting an abortion clinic is moving ahead.
