Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News
Catholic schools are still excluded from Maine’s tuition grant program, a federal judge ruled Aug. 8, but he added that he expected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit to eventually provide “a more authoritative ruling.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Journalism, News, Obituaries, World News
Anthony J. “Tony” Spence, former director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service, died July 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, after a long illness. He was 71. “The Catholic Media Association is grateful to God for the life of Tony Spence,” Gretchen R. Crowe, editor-in-chief of OSV News and president of the CMA board, and Rob DeFrancesco, […]
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
When a routine training class on July 10 for soldiers who guard the base entrance gates, identified, in a PowerPoint presentation, both Operation Rescue and National Right to Life as terrorist groups, as well as showing a “Choose Life” license plate, there was initial confusion followed by immediate outrage as an image of that slide leaked onto social media.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
Though it’s the third film in a franchise that kicked off in 2018, “A Quiet Place: Day One” (Paramount) serves, as its subtitle suggests, as a prequel to its predecessors. Accordingly, it recounts the opening stages of the series’ trademark showdown between resourceful humans and marauding aliens.
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Filed Under: Books, News, Saints, World News
Dubbed by local newspapers as “the padre of the poor,” Father Baker (1842-1936) built, in addition to the basilica, an orphanage, a maternity hospital, a trade school and a home for infant care.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Most of the pro-life activists sentenced to federal prison terms in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia May 14 and 15 along with Lauren Handy are Catholics with years in the “rescue movement” and other arrests.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Lauren Handy has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison — 57 months — for leading a blockade of a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. 22, 2020.
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Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
Behind “We Grown Now” (Sony Pictures Classics), a drama influenced by real-life events, looms the 1992 murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing project. The crime had far-reaching consequences.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
On May 14, Lauren Handy, a resident of Alexandria, Va., who has had short jail terms in the past for disrupting operations at abortion clinics in Michigan and Virginia, is expected to face her stiffest sentence yet.
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Filed Under: News, World News
By any measure, Louis Anthony “Lou” Conter, a Catholic hero of World War II who died April 1 at his home in Grass Valley, Calif., at age 102, led a celebrated life.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News
The fight by religious groups against New York state’s abortion mandate — requiring most private insurance plans to cover abortion — went to the state’s highest court April 16.
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Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
The movie is based on the real-life experiences of Catholic nurse Irene Gut Opdyke (1918-2003). Famed for her rescue of Jews, Opdyke was named Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust Commission.
