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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kurt Jensen |Nicholas DiMarzio
(OSV News) -- The four years Robert F. Prevost spent at Villanova University in Philadelphia -- from the fall of 1973 until May 1977, when he graduated with a degree in mathematics and began his novitiate with the Augustinian order -- included the opening salvos of the pro-life movement. On Jan. 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v.
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1 month ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kurt Jensen |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
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(OSV News) -- For decades, Dominican Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella immersed herself in the ministry of teaching, not retiring until she was 84.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
news.diocesetucson.org | Kurt Jensen
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- On the eve of the national March for Life rally in Washington, President Donald Trump announced Jan. 23 he was issuing pardons for 23 protesters arrested for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act. Trump signed the pardons in the Oval Office. "They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people," he told reporters.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Kurt Jensen
Father Fidelis Moscinski, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, is seen leading fellow pro-life advocates in prayer Sept. 19, 2020, outside a Planned Parenthood center in Hempstead on Long Island, N.Y. He was among 23 pro-life activists pardoned for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, by President Donald Trump Jan. 23, 2025. (OSV News/Gregory A.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Kurt Jensen |Mike Cisneros
On the eve of the national March for Life rally in Washington, President Donald Trump announced Jan. 23 he was issuing pardons for 23 protesters arrested for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act. Trump signed the pardons in the Oval Office. "They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people," he told reporters.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
catholicweekly.com.au | Kurt Jensen
In approaching the comic adventure “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount), viewers will likely be expecting to witness more of the hyperkinetic antics that are the trademark of the Sega video game-based characters around whom the franchise is built. What they may not be bargaining for are complex layers of emotional pain. The speedy blue creature of the title (voice of Ben Schwartz), an alien refugee from a faraway planet, has always been on a quest for meaning.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
todayscatholic.org | Kurt Jensen
(OSV News) – For those attempting to bring any part of the Gospel story to the screen, whether big or small, the four canonical accounts, as books of faith, prove to be of limited help. They’re not motion-picture treatments, and their descriptions of historical details and dialogue tend to be brief.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
oursundayvisitor.com | Kurt Jensen |Kurt Jensen
The Protoevangelium has a nameless angel telling Anne that her prayers to become a mother have been answered. Now he’s identified as the Archangel Gabriel (Dudley O’Shaughnessy). Gabriel becomes a continuous presence in Mary’s life, both before and after the Annunciation, and at one point he directly confronts Satan (Eamon Farren) to protect her. In the movie, moreover, Gabriel — who is usually shown as a winged figure in white — appears in a blue robe, sans wings.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kurt Jensen
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon whether to hear a pair of First Amendment cases seeking to strike down so-called "bubble zones" for pro-life demonstrators outside abortion clinics. The cases have been heard in conference twice. If the court accepts the cases, a hearing is not expected until sometime next spring, and a decision not until next summer. In Turco v.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
catholicvirginian.org | Kurt Jensen |Hunter Reardon
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon whether to hear a pair of First Amendment cases seeking to strike down so-called “bubble zones” for pro-life demonstrators outside abortion clinics. The cases have been heard in conference twice. If the court accepts the cases, a hearing is not expected until sometime next spring, and a decision not until next summer. In Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey, and Coalition Life v.
