Cardinal Gregory discusses pope’s synodal vision, need for a welcoming church December 7, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Synodality, World News At The Catholic University of America to discuss the need for a diverse and welcoming church, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory fielded a wide range of audience questions while also reflecting on his own faith journey from childhood.
Movie Review: ‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ December 2, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has a lot she wants to say about her life and art. Interestingly, much of what she wishes to share is not about her music or her recent worldwide concert tour. Rather, it concerns her moral views.
Movie Review: ‘Thanksgiving’ November 21, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The soul-deadening platter of splatter “Thanksgiving” (Sony) is intended as a comedic homage to exploitation horror films of the past.
Last of 10 defendants over DC abortion clinic blockade found guilty of FACE Act November 17, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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, 2023By 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.
