Kurt Jensen

1 week ago | catholiccourier.com | Kurt Jensen |Gina Capellazzi

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The fight by religious groups against New York state’s abortion mandate requiring most private insurance plans to cover abortion has renewed life. The U.S. Supreme Court June 16 remanded to the New York Court of Appeals the case of Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a move that sends the case, in the words of lawyers for Becket, which handles religious liberty cases, “back to the drawing board” after bouncing between state courts for the past nine years.

1 month ago | catholiccourier.com | Kurt Jensen |Gina Capellazzi

NEW YORK (OSV News) – The Grim Reaper will have his revenge on those who try to cheat him of his haul. Such is the dubious message of the franchise whose sixth installment, “Final Destination Bloodlines” (Warner Bros.), maintains the series’ high splatter factor while throwing in some “moral” posturing that only makes the film more repellant. The sight of characters being impaled, flattened, crushed and/or shredded loses all shock value early on in the dismal proceedings.

2 months ago | catholiccourier.com | Kurt Jensen |Gina Capellazzi

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Motion pictures based on popular video games may have found their perfected form in “A Minecraft Movie” (Warner Bros.). The film is unrelentingly upbeat and undistracted by manufactured sentiment. Its positive mood is struck and sustained, moreover, without resort to the cheap jokes or occasional vulgarity that often plague such adaptations.