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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.

Movie Review: ‘AfrAId’

September 4, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The less-than-compelling psychological thriller “AfrAId” (Columbia) takes the rise of this phenomenon as its premise but then speculates on its possible downside.

FACE lawsuit filed against former friar for barricading himself inside abortion clinic

September 4, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The latest federal lawsuit against a pro-life activist involves a former Franciscan friar who barricaded himself in a restroom at a Philadelphia abortion clinic, forcing an intervention by a police SWAT team.

Seven activists convicted of FACE Act violations by blockading Michigan abortion clinic

August 22, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The third major trial in the past two years of pro-life activists accused of blockading abortion clinics ended Aug. 20 with the convictions of all seven defendants for violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act.

Federal judge rules Maine can exclude Catholic schools from state’s school tuition grant program

August 13, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
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.”

Tony Spence, Catholic journalism veteran, dies at 71; called his work ‘a vocation I truly love’

July 30, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
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, […]

U.S. military disavows soldier training class claiming pro-life groups are terrorist actors

July 16, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
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.

Movie Review: ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’

July 2, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
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.

Comic book tells story of Buffalo priest up for sainthood and beloved for his work with poor

June 22, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
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.

Federal judge sentences 6 more pro-life activists to federal prison terms

May 17, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
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.

Catholic activist sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for abortion clinic blockade

May 15, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
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.

Movie Review: ‘We Grown Now’

May 2, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
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.

Feds say Catholic activist behind D.C. abortion clinic blockade merits 6.5 years in prison

April 24, 2024
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
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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