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By Joseph Pronechen National Catholic Register, Mar 6, 2024 / 06:00 am “During the past few weeks, dark-featured women, in the garb of Sisters of Charity, have been going through the Italian quarters in the Bend and in Little Italy, climbing up dark, steep, and narrow stairways, diving down into foul …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Jan 15, 2024 / 07:00 am Oscar winner Martin Scorsese recently confirmed that a script for his new movie, “A Life of Jesus,” is now finished. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times on Jan. 8, Scorsese said he co-wrote the screenplay with critic and filmmaker …

by Patircia McGeever On a rainy Friday night in March, nearly 500 people gathered in Mater Dei Chapel at Mount St. Joseph University to watch a free screening of the movie At the End of the Santa Fe Trail. It depicts key moments in the life of legendary Sister of …

By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 6, 2023 / 15:19 pm “Sound of Freedom,” an anti-human-trafficking film made by Catholic filmmakers Eduardo Verastegui and Alejandro Monteverde, had a massively successful opening day in which it reached number one at the box office, beating out Disney’s fifth “Indiana Jones” installment, and raking …

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Oct 12, 2022 / 11:45 am Two new Catholic movies that debuted in theaters in September and October are coming back to the big screen for encores by popular demand. American moviegoers will be able to see “Saint Michael: Meet the Angel” in theaters Oct. …

Upon Friar Review: The Two Popes is an incredibly well produced story about Pope Benedict meeting with then Cardinal Jorgeo Bergoglio. Much of the story expresses powerful truths about the Church today and a life of faith, but much of it is far from factual.

by CNA Staff Denver Newsroom, Feb 25, 2021 / 12:45 am MT (CNA).- The co-writer and star of a new film chronicling the courtroom drama of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case said in a recent interview that the film aims to be a truthful and historically accurate …

A Catholic movie everyone is loving. Thanks to The Two Popes, I get to enjoy two things I love that don’t normally go together: a good movie and my Catholic faith. You want credentials? The Two Popes is rich in credentials and accolades. • Winner for the Best Narrative Feature …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Dec 18, 2019 / 11:36 am (CNA).- A new Netflix production, “The Two Popes” centers on several imagined meetings between Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in the period between the 2005 conclave which elected Benedict and the 2013 conclave which elected Pope Francis. …

yler Nilson (left), David Thies (center), and Michael Schwartz (right) on the set of The Peanut Butter Falcon.
By Alisa Fisher For David Thies, the road to The Peanut Butter Falcon began at a local bike shop, Going Mobile Bikes and Boards. This was the name of Thies’ bike shop in Hyde Park in the 1990s. There, Thies met a professional cyclist named John Stamstad who was going …