WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Jon Erwin, in tandem with older brother Andrew, has directed movies with Christian themes over the past decade, including "October Baby" "I Can Only Imagine" and "I Still Believe." But between movies, [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Regis Philbin, the Catholic talk- and game-show host whose career in television spanned six decades, died July 24 at age 88 of cardiovascular disease at a hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Despite a tragically brief and illness-plagued career, Catholic author Flannery O'Connor, who died in 1964 aged just 39, is recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When considering whether to expose a preschool-age child to screens, "the first thing we need to think about is the child," said one longtime children's advocate, "and you as the parent know [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- If they could work from home, they would. But for the production staff of the "Little Books" series in the Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, customer demand is running the show. And the [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Dorothy Day, whose life was a series of seeming contradictions, might be bemused at this one: The DVD version of a documentary about her life has, more than a month before the [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- To hear the voices of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist from Michigan in Washington, the best bet was to listen to them sing at the National Christmas Tree [...]
SPENCER, Mass. (CNS) -- A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 3 at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer for Trappist Father Thomas Keating, a leading figure in the centering prayer movement that got its start [...]
SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- "Worms out of undead eye sockets? Really, Eleanor?" That was the reaction that Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, director of religious education at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, probably never [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- That rustling sound you hear is Jane Austen and her crinolines. They're spinning in the grave they share over a transgression called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" (Screen Gems). As its [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Catholic author Nicholas Sparks, master of gooey romance, returns to the big screen with "The Best of Me" (Relativity), based on his best-selling 2011 novel.All of Sparks' hallmarks are here: a [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Who knew the Day of the Dead could be so much fun? The Mexican method of observing All Souls' Day, Nov. 2, is the backdrop for "The Book of Life" (Fox), [...]