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• CEO of 9/11-related foundation reflects on service to first responders, vets, families

  

  By BETH GRIFFIN, OSV News
  Published September 11, 2024

  Frank Siller is founder, chairman and CEO of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, established by his family to honor the sacrifice of their youngest sibling Stephen, who was a New York firefighter. The foundation is a reflection of the siblings’ Catholic faith.

• Rose Hawthorne’s remarkable life story in the spotlight as sainthood cause advances 

  

  By GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV News
  Published March 25, 2024

  Pope Francis authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to decree as “venerable” Mother Mary Alphonsa Hawthorne—also known as Rose Hawthorne. She was founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Rose of Lima, who serve in New York and Atlanta.

• Dell’Anna offers powerful performance in ‘Cabrini’ 

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, OSV News
  Published March 20, 2024

  In 1946, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII. Four years later, she was named the patron saint of immigrants. To judge by the luminous profile “Cabrini” (Angel Studios), however, she might just as easily be regarded as the patroness of the indomitable. 

• ‘Journey to Bethlehem’ is lively film, filled with song and dance 

  

  By BY JOHN MULDERIG, OSV News
  Published November 16, 2023

  Swedish producer Adam Anders has long been associated with such peppy musical fare as the Fox TV series “Glee” and the big-screen comedy “Rock of Ages.” He makes his directorial debut with the lively song and dance-filled film “Journey to Bethlehem.”

• New York cardinal: Let us remember 9/11 but not forget the day after

  

  By KATE SCANLON, OSV News
  Published September 8, 2023

  Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that in remembering the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, one should also reflect on Sept. 12, 2001, when Americans came together, he said, to console and recover.

• ‘Jesus Revolution ‘doctrinally dodgy’ but uplifting

  By JOHN MULDERIG, OSV News
  Published March 22, 2023

  The Woodstock generation gets religion in the fact-based drama “Jesus Revolution” (Lionsgate). Refreshingly free of the usual objectionable ingredients, this generally appealing Evangelically-flavored look back at a somewhat surprising chapter in Baby Boomer history is doctrinally dodgy but ethically uplifting. 

• Minions: The Rise of Gru

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
  Published July 8, 2022

  A ’70s vibe adds verve to the animated origin story “Minions: The Rise of Gru” (Universal). The result is a generally wholesome and breezy bit of entertainment. But a minor ingredient in the mix plays on Catholic sensibilities in a way that may prove slightly grating to parents of faith.

• Brutal attack on worshippers in Nigeria is called attack on ‘entire church’

  

  By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
  Published June 9, 2022

  The brutal attack on people at a Catholic church in Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday is “an attack on the entire church,” said a U.S. official of Aid to the Church in Need.

• CNEWA launches appeal to help Indian churches respond to COVID-19 crisis

  

  By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
  Published May 4, 2021

  Catholic Near East Welfare Association has launched an emergency campaign to help India’s local churches respond to the escalating COVID-19 crisis.

• Everyone has role in helping nation heal after divisive election, says Jesuit

  

  By TOM TRACY, Catholic News Service
  Published November 12, 2020

  While postelection tensions are exceptionally high, Americans are not as ultra-polarized as the media portrays and they have the tools to help restore personal perspective and improve engagement with divergent opinions.

• ‘Just Mercy’ has real-world significance

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
  Published January 9, 2020

  The legal drama “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros.), director and co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of the 2014 memoir by Bryan Stevenson, reaches back to events in the 1980s. But it also succeeds in vividly demonstrating the ongoing dangers posed by the application of the death penalty in a society still burdened by widespread racism.

• Franciscans announce departure from Catholic Center at UGA

  

  Published January 9, 2020

  he Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province (HNP) are withdrawing from the Catholic Center at the University of Georgia, Athens. Ministerial responsibilities and administrative operations will be turned over to the Archdiocese of Atlanta this summer, ending more than 60 years of pastoral service by the friars.

• ‘A Hidden Life’ paints portrait of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
  Published December 26, 2019

  In 2007, Franz Jagerstatter, a devoutly Catholic Austrian farmer martyred by the Nazis for his stance as a conscientious objector, was declared blessed.

• Reviewer says N.Y. Archdiocese complying with charter in ‘all respects’

  

  By BETH GRIFFIN, Catholic News Service
  Published October 3, 2019

  Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said Sept. 30 he was “grateful and relieved” by the report of a comprehensive independent review of archdiocesan compliance with the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”

• ‘Ad Astra’ an epic and intimate character study

  

  By John Mulderig, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
  Published October 3, 2019

  The Latin motto from which the compelling sci-fi drama “Ad Astra” (Fox) takes its title assures us that, by persevering through difficulties, we can aspire to reach the stars.

• Memories of September 11 attacks linger for former fire department chaplain

  

  By ALLYSON ESCOBAR, Catholic News Service
  Published September 10, 2019

  Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain who is currently pastor of St. Jude Church in Brooklyn, remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly. At the time of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Msgr. Delendick had just finished celebrating Mass at St. Michael’s Church, Brooklyn, where he was pastor.

• The Lion King retelling ‘unlikely to make lasting impression’

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
  Published July 24, 2019

  Advances in moviemaking technology allow a story that could only previously be told as a cartoon to be enacted, so to speak, by animals. And so we get “The Lion King” (Disney).

• ‘Aladdin’ will have viewers rooting for underdog

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
  Published May 30, 2019

  With “Aladdin” (Disney), director and co-writer Guy Ritchie serves up a spirited live-action take on the same material. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable musical fantasy that’s suitable for a wide range of age groups. John Mulderig of Catholic News Service reviews the movie.

• ‘Avengers: Endgame’ a three-hour extravaganza

  

  By JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
  Published May 2, 2019

  Aficionados of the Marvel Comics universe are likely to be thrilled by the sweeping epic “Avengers: Endgame” (Disney). Read this review of the long-awaited movie from Catholic News Service’s John Mulderig.

• Misfits embark on epic quest in ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’

  

  By JOSEPH McALEER, Catholic News Service
  Published January 25, 2019

  NEW YORK (CNS)—The Arthurian legend gets an inventive updating in “The Kid Who Would Be King” (Fox), a thrilling adventure that casts schoolchildren as latter-day Knights of the Round Table, destined to save the world. Borrowing heavily from the Harry Potter canon, with a dash of J.R.R. Tolkien and Disney’s “The Sword in the Stone” […] Full Story