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.
Pardoned pro-lifers describe their legal ordeal, what lies ahead for their activism February 10, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News On Jan. 23, the president pardoned Paulette Harlow and 22 other pro-life activists convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, or FACE Act.
For 125 years, society has had a mission to produce Catholic resources for the blind February 2, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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.
