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Judi Dench and Ali Fazal star in a scene from the movie "Victoria and Abdul." 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/Focus Features)

Movie Review: ‘Victoria and Abdul’

Sister Hosea Rupprecht
November 3, 2017
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The platonic bond at the heart of the plot is sweet and endearing. But the film’s attitude toward colonialism seems overly simplified.

Nicholas Black Elk is pictured in an undated historical photo teaching a girl how to pray the rosary. Bishop Robert D. Gruss of Rapid City, S.D., celebrated an Oct. 21 Mass at Holy Rosary Church in Pine Ridge, S.D., to open the sainthood cause for the Native American. (CNS photo/courtesy Marquette University)

Mass formally opens canonization cause for Black Elk

Catholic News Service
November 3, 2017
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With the formal opening of his cause, Black Elk now has the title “servant of God.”

In this 2013 file photo, Capuchin Franciscan Father Thomas Weinandy is pictured at the Washington headquarters of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops where he served as chief adviser on doctrinal and canonical affairs. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

Priest resigns as consultant on doctrine after letter to pope

Catholic News Service
November 3, 2017
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The Capuchin Franciscan priest is former executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs expressed loyalty to the pope but at the same time told the pope that “a chronic confusion seems to mark your pontificate.”

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