world news FeatureNewsVaticanWorld News Hypocrisy in the church is ‘detestable,’ pope says at audience Carol GlatzAugust 25, 20214 min read Hypocrites are afraid of the truth, fearful of who they really are and incapable of truly loving, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience. FeatureMovie & Television ReviewsWorld News Movie Review: ‘PAW Patrol: The Movie’ John MulderigAugust 25, 20212 min read With the arrival of “PAW Patrol: The Movie” (Paramount), the titular rescue crew of pups bring their adventures to a multiplex near you. The result is a breezy, tenderhearted film suitable for all. FeatureNewsVaticanWorld News Push to ban ‘killer robots’ gets a boost from the Vatican and the pope Dennis SadowskiAugust 24, 20218 min read Among the many threats to human life and dignity, the Vatican is making sure that the widening use of lethal autonomous weapons systems worldwide is not reduced to a natural progression of technology that people learn to accept and live with. CoronavirusFeatureNewsVaticanWorld News Cardinal Burke remains hospitalized, but he’s off ventilator, out of ICU Catholic News ServiceAugust 23, 20214 min read Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remained hospitalized for COVID-19 but as of Aug. 21 he was taken off a ventilator that he had been on for some days and taken out of the ICU to be returned to a regular hospital room, according to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. FeatureNewsWorld News U.S. missionary nuns fly home after quake to organize shipment to Haiti Tom TracyAugust 23, 20215 min read Getting emergency supplies and aid into the Haiti region most impacted by the Aug. 14 earthquake will prove a major logistical challenge, said two missionary nuns who work in Haiti. EucharistFeatureNewsVaticanWorld News Seek God through a relationship with Christ, others, pope says at Angelus Carol GlatzAugust 23, 20213 min read God can be found in the humanity of Jesus and in the people one meets in life, Pope Francis said. FeatureNewsReligious FreedomWorld News Faith leaders raise concerns over online censorship of religious speech Catholic News ServiceAugust 21, 20215 min read YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote. NewsVocationsWorld News Keynotes, working sessions, reflection time make up LCWR’s virtual assembly Catholic News ServiceAugust 21, 20217 min read Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting. Arts & CultureFeatureNewsSaintsWorld News British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past Jonathan LuxmooreAugust 20, 20216 min read 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 & Television ReviewsWorld News Movie Review: ‘The Protege’ John MulderigAugust 20, 20213 min read 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. Previous 1 … 408 409 410 … 514 Next