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Kurt Jensen

Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publisher serving millions of Catholics globally through its publishing and communication services. Kurt Jensen writes for OSV News from Washington.

For 125 years, society has had a mission to produce Catholic resources for the blind

February 2, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, Feature, News, World News

The Xavier Society for the Blind is celebrating 125 years of helping generations of Catholics, either blind or vision-impaired, participate in worship through braille texts, large-type books and audio books.

Trump pardons 23 pro-life activists convicted of FACE Act violations

January 24, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

On the eve of the national March for Life rally in Washington, President Donald Trump announced Jan. 23 he was issuing pardons for 23 protesters arrested for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act.

Movie Review: ‘Better Man’

January 13, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

If nothing else, “Better Man” (Paramount), the biopic of British pop star Robbie Williams, avoids the familiar formula of show business sagas. Most fundamentally, that’s because Williams voices himself as a CGI chimpanzee.

Thomas Little, former pastoral associate for Eastern Vicariate, dies at 76

January 12, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Thomas Edward Little of Catonsville, a former pastoral associate for the Eastern Vicariate of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and pastoral associate for evangelization and adult faith formation at Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville, was an energetic educator, an astute organizer and well-known for his love of singing, Notre Dame football and tropical shirts.

Movie Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’

December 19, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In approaching the comic adventure “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount), viewers will likely be expecting to witness more of the hyperkinetic antics that are the trademark of the Sega video game-based characters around whom the franchise is built. What they may not be bargaining for are complex layers of emotional pain.

New Netflix film presents the life of the Virgin Mary

December 6, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

“Mary,” an earnest drama, will be available for streaming on Netflix Dec. 6.

Movie Review: ‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.’

November 22, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In crafting the biopic “Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.” (Angel), writer-director Todd Komarnicki can be credited with being scrupulous about historical truth. Yet, despite the film’s provocative full title — which suggests that he had a lot of interesting material to mine from his subject’s life — there’s a ponderous tone to his profile.

Pro-life activists given prison sentences for Tennessee abortion clinic blockade

October 3, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News

Federal sentences for three defendants imposed Sept. 26-27 in connection with a March 5, 2021, blockade of an abortion clinic in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, leave only sentencing in a Michigan case in the current round of Justice Department prosecutions of clinic blockades.

In new book, Annapolis historian delves into rich history of St. Mary parish

September 26, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News

Robert Worden’s new book, “Soldiers of the Cross: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos and the Catholic Community in Annapolis During the Civil War” (Gatekeeper Press) dives into the complicated history of St. Mary’s during the Civil War.

Harris backs ending filibuster for law to codify a national right to abortion

September 25, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

In one of her strongest statements on restoring a national right to abortion as it existed under the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973, Vice President Kamala Harris has said she would support eliminating the filibuster in the U.S. Senate in order to bring back federal protections for a woman’s right to an abortion as they existed under Roe.

Movie Review: ‘Never Let Go’

September 25, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

As allegorical horror films about woodland isolation complicated by demon-infestation rate, “Never Let Go” (Lionsgate) checks off all the unpleasant boxes.

Missouri joins Nebraska in legal challenges to abortion ballot initiatives

September 9, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

As ballot deadlines approach, Missouri joins Nebraska as states where ballot initiatives to enshrine legal abortion in their respective state constitutions this November now face court challenges. Late Sept. 6 in Missouri, Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh ruled against the proposed abortion amendment, declaring that the initiative campaigners, Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, had not […]

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