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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.

Last of 10 defendants over DC abortion clinic blockade found guilty of FACE Act

November 17, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The last of 10 defendants on trial for a 2020 “lock and block” invasion of a Washington abortion clinic was convicted Nov. 16.

Pro-life protesters gain partial win over major city’s ‘abortion bubble’ restrictions

November 3, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

In a partial legal win for pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics, a federal judge in Minneapolis has allowed a First Amendment challenge to proceed against the city’s 2022 “abortion bubble” ordinance.

Movie Review: ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’

October 18, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

In a world of ultra-raunchy rap and the obscenity-laden lyrics often found even outside that genre, Taylor Swift shows considerable moderation.

Biden administration to expand U.S.-Mexico border wall, a move long opposed by U.S. bishops

October 6, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

The U.S. government is moving ahead with plans to extend a border wall in South Texas, an action long opposed by the U.S. Catholic bishops.

Lawmakers seek FACE Act repeal, say law weaponizes federal power against pro-lifers

October 3, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

Legislation recently introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and 25 of his fellow House Republicans and a companion bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in the Senate, seeks the repeal of the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act, calling it an unconstitutional weaponized use of federal power.

Movie Review: ‘Deliver Us’

September 27, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A blast furnace of blasphemy, “Deliver Us” (Magnet), also is an amalgam of gore and nudity. Co-director (with Cru Ennis) Lee Roy Kunz — who co-wrote the screenplay with Kane Kunz and also takes the film’s leading role — seems intent on giving us religiously themed horror with sexy elements and the power to shock.

Three more pro-life activists convicted on federal charges for blockade at abortion clinic

September 19, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Three more pro-life activists, including one famous in the 1980s for her abortion clinic “rescues,” were convicted Sept. 15 on federal felony charges of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, for a blockade at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.

Catholic religious sisters share their witness of ‘living radically the presence of the Gospel’

September 19, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Sister Norma spoke as part of a Sept. 14 online panel co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and its Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

Appeals court says Catholic group can install Stations of the Cross ‘prayer trail’

September 13, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Plans for the “Casa USA” campus — with backing from other Catholic health care organizations, individuals and the patronage of Lansing Bishop Earl A. Boyea — call for duplicating Padre Pio’s hospital complex for the first time outside of Italy, including an exact replica of the original friary church of the Capuchin Franciscan who is also known as St. Pius of Pietrelcina.

Relic of St. Jude, apostle and patron of desperate causes, begins US tour

September 8, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

The Relic of St. Jude tour begins in Chicago Sept. 9 at St. John Cantius Church. Scheduled stops for the remainder of 2023 include parishes in Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa, followed by Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan.

Movie Review: ‘The Nun II’

September 7, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

If jump-scares were an Olympic competition, director Michael Chaves’ horror sequel “The Nun II” (Warner Bros.) would undoubtedly be festooned with gold medals.

Five pro-life activists sent to federal prison for blocking Washington abortion clinic

August 31, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

After a raucous jury trial, five pro-life activists face as many as 11 years in federal prison for convictions to conspire to blockade a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.

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