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Kurt Jensen

Movie Review: ‘Pinocchio’

Kurt Jensen January 14, 2021
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, News, World News

It’s no lie to say that this “Pinocchio” is scrupulously faithful to the grotesqueries of its source material.

Movie Review: ‘Fishbowl’

Kurt Jensen October 29, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, World News

Logical flaws make this drama’s plot difficult to embrace, or even comprehend. Some dialogue expressing the inner lives of the characters would have been a great help.

EWTN News/RealClear poll shows more ‘likely Catholic voters’ behind Biden

Kurt Jensen October 21, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News

Less than two weeks before the presidential election, a new poll indicated President Donald Trump has lost the so-called “Catholic vote” and that his nomination of a Catholic to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, did nothing to change that equation.

Movie Review: ‘Yellow Rose’

Kurt Jensen October 15, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, News, World News

Paragas has constructed a kind and ethical world, sanding away the unpleasant realities of political contention, overt racism and the threat of sexual predation.

Movie Review: ‘Infidel’

Kurt Jensen September 24, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, World News

In dealing with religious conflict in Iran, it stereotypes Muslims as having beaky noses, scowling constantly and being prone to wishing, and committing, violence on those who disrespect Islam.

Trump says he will sign order to ensure babies born alive receive care

Kurt Jensen September 23, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

President Donald Trump said Sept. 23 he would sign an executive order to “ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve.”

Democratic Party urged to be ‘big tent’ and welcome its pro-life members

Kurt Jensen August 19, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

Alison Centofante, director of external affairs at Live Action, observed: “Abortion’s not a partisan issue,” but rather is based on what science has learned about fetal development in the womb.

In planning Jan. 29 March for Life, officials mindful of health safeguards

Kurt Jensen August 2, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

March for Life is, at its core, a bus event for college and high school groups, and restrictions on that kind of travel are still an unknown factor.

Movie Review: ‘The Outpost’

Kurt Jensen July 7, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, World News

With a commendable sensitivity to both the inanities and the unrelenting raw horror of combat — and careful attention to the emotional lives and steadfast valor of soldiers — “The Outpost” (Screen Media) seems likely to become an instant classic of the war-film genre.

Professor: St. John Henry Newman saw church, university as ‘inseparable’

Kurt Jensen March 1, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Filed Under: News, World News

Long after his death, now-St. John Henry Newman’s ideas found the world marching to them.

Movie Review: ‘Les Miserables’

Kurt Jensen February 13, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, News, World News

“Les Miserables” (Amazon) has no connection to Victor Hugo’s classic novel of the same name other than its setting — the rundown Paris suburb of Montfermeil, where the poor still struggle and continue to distrust authority figures.

Movie Review: ‘Gretel and Hansel’

Kurt Jensen February 6, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Filed Under: Movie Reviews, News, World News

The film covers the familiar outlines of the old story, with two children negotiating a dark and very foggy forest as they escape a famine-scarred home life in search of food and security.

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