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NEW YORK (CNS) — Celebrated actor Al Pacino’s many fans have waited more than five decades for him to make his episodic television debut. So it’s disappointing that “Hunters,” the program that features his first turn within the format, isn’t worth viewers’ time.

Repentance has to be in response to Jesus' death on the cross. The word “redemption” comes, literally, from the term to buy back, which God-as-man did on the cross.

The Christian life and its spiritual practices are undertaken not for one’s own sake alone. They extend outward and lead toward others, whose lives may be complicated, painful.

NEW YORK (CNS) — The 2019 release of “Kingdom Hearts 3” wrapped up a video game odyssey that spanned nearly two decades. But fans still wanted more of the franchise’s elaborate lore and challenging fights.

Lent is an invitation to walk with Christ through the desert. You need only: docility, openness to the journey and abandonment of your own will.

NEW YORK (CNS) — Not that the intended core audience of children is likely to notice, but many of the adults who take them will find that there’s something oddly mechanical and even maladroit about “Sonic the Hedgehog” (Paramount).

In this “Christian” race, we are not competing against one another but against the physical and spiritual obstacles that stand in the way of holiness.

Parents are the heads of their domestic church, but it's okay — and fruitful — to ask the kids what they want to do for Lent.

In a world in which people often pride themselves on “having no regrets,” it’s admitting we have a few, or eight, or 50.

Having a divorce in the neighborhood is like having a sinkhole in your street. Everything that seemed stable suddenly isn’t.