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Debra Messing and John Cho, center right, star in a scene from the movie "Searching." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Sony)

Movie Review: ‘Searching’

John Mulderig
September 5, 2018
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NEW YORK (CNS) — Those on the lookout for an above-average thriller boasting both surprising plot developments and upright basic values will probably be pleased with “Searching” (Screen Gems). While it’s handled discreetly, however, at least one of the many twists and turns taken by director and co-writer Aneesh Chaganty’s gripping feature debut — penned […]

Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, leaves the opening session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 6, 2014. Cardinal Stella said the current abuse crisis facing the church would not have been so grave if laity were more involved in the formation of priests. (CNS photoPaul Haring) See CLERICALISM-ABUSE-STELLA Sept. 5, 2018.

Laity must have role in fighting clericalism, Vatican official says

Junno Arocho Esteves
September 5, 2018
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Clericalism has led to a distorted view of authority that has contributed to the problems of sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience affecting the Catholic Church, said the head of the Vatican’s clergy office. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, said the crisis facing the […]

A time to repent

Archbishop William E. Lori
September 5, 2018
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The ongoing sexual abuse crisis in the Church has hit us with full force following the revelations concerning Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, and the Pennsylvania grand jury report. Once again, we were confronted with a tsunami of evil: the evil of those who perpetrated unspeakable crimes against children and young people; and […]

Megan Blackburn, physical education teacher at St. Joan of Arc School in Aberdeen, welcomes students back to school Sept. 4. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

First day for three Catholic schools includes Archbishop Lori, other visitors

Emily Rosenthal Alster
September 4, 2018
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On the first day of school Sept. 4, Archbishop William E. Lori – accompanied by Jim Sellinger, chancellor of education, and Donna Hargens, superintendent – visited schools in Harford and Baltimore counties.

An artist’s rendering shows what a new Catholic school in development for West Baltimore might look like. (Courtesy Rubeling & Associates)

New Baltimore Catholic school to be named in honor of Mother Lange

Catholic Review Staff
September 4, 2018
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The proposed new Catholic school in Baltimore will honor the name of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, the foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and the first Catholic school in the United States for black children.

Then eighth-graders at Holy Angels Catholic School, Jalynn Manigo, Sydnei Chase, Kelia Stanley and Mika Baldwin visit with Eleanor Bronis, 96 (left) and Adele Karl, 94 (right) at the Jenkins Senior Living campus last June. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Spirit of service begins early at Holy Angels

Paul McMullen
September 4, 2018
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“Created for Good Works” is the theme for 2018-19, the year of service in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. That is an ethos that students at Catholic schools embrace long before they enter high school.

Pope Francis in 2015 waves alongside Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then the apostolic nuncio to the United States, right, outside St. Patrick in the City Church in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Vigano, spokesmen dispute facts of contested pope meeting in Washington

Cindy Wooden
September 4, 2018
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Days after he called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly ignoring sanctions placed on then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano provided his version of a meeting that, in the minds of many, changed the overall narrative of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in 2015.

Workers set a girder in place while rebuilding a bridge July 28 in Detroit. Labor Day, honoring U.S. workers, is observed Sept. 3 this year. (CNS photo/Jim West)

Bishop echoes pope: The poor’s plight is ‘the Gospel, pure and simple’

Mark Pattison
September 2, 2018
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In the bishops’ annual Labor Day statement, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, said the recent economic news may not “give an entirely accurate account of the daily lives and struggles of working people, those who are still without work, or the underemployed struggling with low wages.”

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