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Anthony Hopkins portrays retired Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce portrays Pope Francis in a scene from the movie "The Two Popes."
Anthony Hopkins portrays retired Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce portrays Pope Francis in a scene from the movie "The Two Popes." 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/Peter Mountain, courtesy NETFLIX)

Movie Review: ‘The Two Popes’

John Mulderig
December 13, 2019
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In “The Two Popes,” their glossy but highly speculative account of supposedly real events, screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Meirelles ill-advisedly try to extol Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) by trashing retired Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins).

This painting by artist Lalo Garcia seen Nov. 20, 2019, is part of an exhibit in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Our Lady of Guadalupe "is the mother of all of us" and asks that we share in her mission of bringing he "Jesus into every corner of our lives," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily during midnight Mass Dec. 12. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles)

Our Lady of Guadalupe is ‘mother of us all,’ says Los Angeles archbishop

Catholic News Service
December 12, 2019
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Mary, the Mother of God is “the mother of all of us,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily for midnight Mass celebrated at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Mark Ruffalo stars in a scene from the movie "Dark Waters." 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: ‘Dark Waters’

Kurt Jensen
December 12, 2019
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Eventually, there may be a movie focused on some travail affecting people in West Virginia without John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” on the soundtrack.

Pope Francis participates in a moment of silence during a meeting for peace at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 24, 2019. In his message for the Jan. 1 World Day of Peace, Pope Francis said the world does not need more empty words, it needs committed, active peacemakers. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World needs peacemakers, not empty words, pope says in message

Carol Glatz
December 12, 2019
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The world does not need more empty words, it needs committed, active peacemakers who do not exclude or manipulate, but are open to respectful dialogue, Pope Francis said in his annual message for the World Day of Peace Jan. 1.

Archdiocese of Baltimore to Host Holiday Party for Poppleton Community Children

Archdiocese of Baltimore
December 11, 2019

For Immediate Release Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Contact: Lauren Robinson 410.547.5369 (office) 443.739.7876 (Cell) Baltimore, MD, December 11, 2019 – The Archdiocese of Baltimore Department of Catholic Schools and the Office of Community Affairs, will be hosting a Christmas party for the children of the Poppleton neighborhood on Friday, December 13th, at the University of […]

Metropolitan Police Department personnel are seen Dec. 10, 2019, on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington. A suspect struck a female security guard with a car in the parking lot of the nearby Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and stabbed another male security guard inside the basilica. The suspect is in custody. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Guards attacked at national shrine in D.C. in apparent domestic incident

Rhina Guidos
December 11, 2019
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Washington authorities apprehended a suspect in an incident involving an attack Dec. 10 against two security guards at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the largest Marian shrine in the United States, at the height of its busiest season.

The beatification Mass of Blessed James Miller in Huehuetenango, Guatemala included an image of the martyred Christian Brother. (CNS photo/CNS photo/David Agren )

U.S. brother beatified on soccer fields of Guatemalan school he served

David Agren
December 10, 2019
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Christian Brother James Miller taught students and served as a vice principal at the La Sallian Christian Brothers school in this impoverished pocket of rural Guatemala. He also helped oversee a boarding home for male students from the surrounding indigenous communities.

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