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Father Fabian Marquez encourages a woman during a vigil service for Andre Pablo Anchondo at Perches Funeral Home in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 15, 2019. Anchondo died along with his wife Aug. 3 as they protected their 2-month-old baby from the mass gunman at Walmart. Achondo was buried the next day following his funeral Mass celebrated by Father Marquez. (CNS photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)

‘So many funerals,’ says El Paso priest who comforted grieving kin

Mark Pattison
August 19, 2019
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Father Fabian Marquez was the right priest at a very wrong time. He was among several priests in El Paso, Texas, summoned to help out where they could in the hours following the brazen Aug. 3 assault at a Walmart store in the Texas border town that left 22 dead and dozens of others wounded.

Friends and family attend the funeral Mass of Juan Velazquez at Our Lady of the Light Church in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 9, 2019, six days after he was killed in a shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. (CNS photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)

Disrespect for life, lack of moral center seen as factors in gun violence

Elizabeth Bachmann
August 15, 2019
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In this American age of violence, where 165 shootings happened this year alone, where politicians scream at each other across the aisle about gun laws and Second Amendment rights without even the common ground of mutual respect, religious leaders, scholars and TV personalities alike notice a more insidious problem with American culture.

Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear star in a scene from the movie "Brian Banks." 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/Bleecker Street)

Movie Review: ‘Brian Banks’

Kurt Jensen
August 15, 2019
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Dramas of the falsely accused fighting against a broken legal system are reliably inspiring. With the sports star formula additionally worked in, “Brian Banks” (Bleecker Street) might seem to ace it.

A screen shot from "Woodstock," 1970 Warner Brothers, shows Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart Sister Susanne Bunn as a young nun and a Catholic Review recreation of the famous pose is shown in a 2016 photo. (CR file)

Another round with the Woodstock Nun

Erik Zygmont
August 14, 2019
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The fleeting image of the demure and habited nun furtively flashing the two-finger peace sign in the 1970 documentary “Woodstock” has floated softly through five decades now, a lasting if elusory symbol that touches on the historic music festival but ultimately alights someplace else.

Attendees enjoy a glass of wine July 26, 2019, at the Napa Institute's annual Summer Conference in California. Bishops, clergy, women religious and over 500 lay Catholics came together at the conference to discuss religion and the state of the church, to network and to enjoy fellowship with one another. (CNS photo/courtesy Napa Institute)

Religion, state of the church among topics at annual Napa conference

Catholic News Service
August 13, 2019
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The Napa Institute, founded in 2010, hosted its ninth annual Summer Conference in late July, focusing on the theme of authentic reform and the current state of the church.

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