Kurt Jensen

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.

Nov 21, 2024 | oursundayvisitor.com | Kurt Jensen

Dominicans in Toulouse commissioned a new reliquary for the skull’s tour. The relic was recently on display in the Czech Republic and France, and after the United States, organizers have planned for stops in Manila and Luxembourg. The events in Washington are sponsored by St. Dominic Parish, the Dominican House of Studies and the Thomistic Institute. The skull will be displayed first at St. Dominic Nov. 29, beginning at 12:10 p.m. with Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington.

Oct 15, 2024 | oursundayvisitor.com | Kurt Jensen

Leonard Chambers, that former priest, was assigned to around 20 Missouri parishes before being forced into retirement in 1998. “These new claims will be examined and the Diocese will continue to attend to those who have been harmed by abuse as outlined in the U.S. Bishops’ ‘Charter for the Protection of Children and Youth People’ and our own safe environment policies and procedures,” said a statement from the diocese headed by Bishop Edward M. Rice.

Sep 25, 2024 | oursundayvisitor.com | Kurt Jensen

Harris' Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, has campaigned on leaving abortion regulation to the states and not the federal government -- including promising to veto a hypothetical national abortion ban -- following the 2022 Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. He told a rally audience in Indiana, Pennsylvania, that "women will be happy, healthy, confident and free" if he is elected to a second term in office.

Sep 4, 2024 | oursundayvisitor.com | Kurt Jensen

(OSV News) — The latest federal lawsuit against a pro-life activist involves a former Franciscan friar who barricaded himself in a restroom at a Philadelphia abortion clinic, forcing an intervention by a police SWAT team. Matthew Connolly, 42, of St. Paul, Minnesota, who has been active in blockades organized by Red Rose Rescue, was charged on Aug. 26 in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia of obstructing operations at the Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center on Aug. 27, 2021.