Category: FILMS AND BOOKS

  • January 10, 2020

Death penalty foes applaud message of new movie ‘Just Mercy’

"The film's most powerful characteristics are its ability to humanize the individuals who are on death row and...
  • December 28, 2019

Movies: The Irishman

NEW YORK (CNS) — The disappearance of union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished without a trace in 1975,...
  • December 21, 2019

Movies: A Hidden Life

NEW YORK (CNS) — In 2007, Franz Jagerstatter (1907-1943), a devoutly Catholic Austrian farmer martyred by the Nazis...
  • December 20, 2019

Movies: Star Wars — The Rise of Skywalker

NEW YORK (CNS) — A long time ago, in a world that now seems far, far away —...
  • November 4, 2019

Conversion is aim of pope’s ‘great reform,’ author says

Pope Francis has spoken several times about the church and its ministers recognizing their woundedness, seeking forgiveness and...
  • October 21, 2019

New film on St. Faustina makes one-night-only debut Oct. 28

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new film on the life of St. Faustina Kowalska, the Polish nun whose visions...
  • October 16, 2019

Re-published anthology highlights essentials of St. Newman’s theology

It’s October, All-Souls Day on the event horizon; and, it is the month that John Henry Newman is...
  • September 26, 2019

Movies: Abominable

NEW YORK (CNS) — “Adorable” has a new synonym: “Abominable” (DreamWorks), a charming animated film which transforms the...
  • September 25, 2019

Bishop’s book on sexual abuse crisis more about scandal than healing

The title of Bishop Robert E. Barron’s “Letter to a Suffering Church” led me — as a survivor...
  • September 21, 2019

Movies: Downton Abbey

NEW YORK (CNS) — Those who’ve been yearning for a fix of interwar elegance ever since the popular...