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Higher mission: Military, police recommit to faith during Jubilee
ROME (CNS) — A group of U.S. pilgrims who crossed the threshold of the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Mary Major Feb. 6 have traveled the world on …
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Trump, the destroyer of worlds
President Donald Trump is the epitome of a destroyer who knows what he hates but has no idea how to build anything beautiful. He has greater joy in firing people …
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The Catholic response to the LA fires is care for neighbor and planet
Pope Francis offers guidance on evaluating and responding to disaster through his encyclicals Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti. Care for our common home, in conjunction with care for our neighbor, is the …
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Trump thinks outside the box on Gaza. Way outside.
The president seems not to recognize that ownership of the land is the underlying issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and removing yet more Palestinians from their land is unlikely to …
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Catholic Relief Services and bishops launch quiet online campaign to halt deep cuts
The international relief organization founded by U.S. bishops in 1983 is in crisis after sweeping foreign aid cuts by the Trump administration. The bishops’ conference did not respond to a …
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The Lourdes Effect: The Miracle Club director Thaddeus O’Sullivan on Irish trauma and miracles
Laura Linney stars in an Irish comedy set in 1967 about a group of women confronting their past on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. The director talks about the trauma that …
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Dune and The Lord of the Rings
In my reviews of Dune: Part One and now Dune: Part Two (filed and pending publication; stay tuned!) I’ve written a bit comparing and contrasting Dune with Star Wars. Here …
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Ethan Hunt’s second act and Tom Cruise’s third: The unending impossible mission
What the Mission: Impossible series discovers in this moment is this: Imperfect stunts can be more thrilling than perfect ones, and an unflappable superman who always knows exactly what to …
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Indiana Jones movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why the original still stands alone
Eight years earlier, The Exorcist offered a gut-wrenching morality tale about, among other things, the spiritual dangers of messing around with Ouija boards and demons. The climax of Raiders offers …
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Watch: The Song of Bernadette and Lourdes – An Arts & Faith Top 100 discussion with Kenneth R. Morefield
In which I chat with the editor of a collection of essays about the Arts & Faith Top 100 films about my contribution to the book