British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past August 20, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Saints, World News In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history’s most notorious crimes.
Movie Review: ‘The Protege’ August 20, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, World News Director Martin Campbell’s sleek yet brutal thriller “The Protege” (Lionsgate) not only depicts the activities of its principal characters, all of them assassins, in unsparing bloody detail. It also presents its own alternate version of morality.
Movie Review: ‘Reminiscence’ August 20, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, World News Part dystopian adventure, part neo-noir mystery, “Reminiscence” (Warner Bros.) is undone by its own sense of importance.
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway August 19, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan Aug. 16 as they were returning home to Juba. Seven other sisters survived the attack.
Arlington Bishop: Church has ‘sacred duty’ to speak truth about human person, gender August 19, 2021By Zoey Maraist Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The topic of transgenderism is discussed routinely in the news, on television shows and in schools.
Bishops say U.S. government must urgently act to relocate fleeing Afghans August 18, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Saying that a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees called on the U.S. government to “act with utmost urgency” to resettle thousands of Afghan citizens entering the country under special immigrant visas.
Washington Archdiocese launches new action plan to care for creation August 18, 2021By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News With a new action plan, the Archdiocese of Washington is encouraging parishes, Catholic schools and other institutions, families and individuals to follow the guidance of Pope Francis to protect the earth, care for all human life, and combat climate change using education and actions small and large.
Vaccination is an act of love, pope says in ad campaign August 18, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News When each individual makes a small act of charity, like getting the COVID-19 vaccine, every gesture added together can transform the world, Pope Francis said in a global ad campaign.
Caritas Italy, Jesuits suspend activities in Afghanistan August 17, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Caritas Italy announced the suspension of charitable activities in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Bishop who served Czechs in U.S., Canada, Australia dies in California August 17, 2021By Joe Ruff Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News A native of Czechoslovakia who fled persecution by that country’s communist regime and served in Minnesota for nearly 30 years before being appointed a bishop in the Czech Republic died Aug. 10 in California. Retired Bishop Peter Esterka was 85.
Relief workers: Haiti earthquake complicated by economy, gangs, weather August 16, 2021By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Relief workers in Haiti said the Aug. 14 earthquake might not be as catastrophic as the 2010 quake that was closer to the capital, but recovery will be complicated because the quake came on the heels of July’s presidential assassination, of an economic and ongoing political crisis, the coronavirus pandemic and an active storm season now underway.
Pope prays for peace in Afghanistan as Taliban takes control August 16, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, Vatican, World News “I join in the unanimous concern for the situation in Afghanistan. I ask all of you to pray with me to the God of peace, so that the clamor of weapons might cease and solutions can be found at the table of dialogue,” the pope said Aug. 15.
