Tony Spence, Catholic journalism veteran, dies at 71; called his work ‘a vocation I truly love’ July 30, 2024By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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, 2024By 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.
Last survivor of USS Arizona, dead at 102, is recalled for commitment to country, strong faith April 19, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News 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.
New York’s highest court hears Catholic-led challenge to state abortion mandate April 18, 2024By Kurt Jensen 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.
‘Irena’s Vow,’ Heroism in the Face of Evil April 11, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News 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.
Life on farm named for Dorothy Day helps Catholic couple deepen faith, ‘glorify God’ April 1, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Carmina Chapp, a Catholic theologian with degrees from Providence College and Duquesne University, is the founder of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm near the borough of Harveys Lake, Pa., near Scranton.
