NEW YORK (CNS) — Superheroes have gotten too serious. That’s the takeaway from “DC Universe: Rebirth,” the famed publisher’s new series of comics through which it […]
DC’s ‘rebirth’: a return to happy superheroes?
“Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism,” various dates, PBS
NEW YORK (CNS) — There’s good news for Catholic viewers and all those with an interest in history: The compelling documentary “Liberating a Continent: John Paul […]
Rhys Bowen: Still a place for faith in mystery writer’s body of work
TORONTO (CNS) — British-American writer Janet Quin-Harkin, better known to her many readers as Rhys Bowen, recently returned to her California home from Las Vegas, where […]
Book: History a refreshing departure from overly pious views of St. Francis
“The Enthusiast: How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started” by Jon M. Sweeney. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2016). […]
Movie: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’
NEW YORK (CNS) — Genetic engineering explained so that 13-year-old boys can easily comprehend it is one of the features of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out […]
When Harry ‘met’ Harry, years apart, under a New Orleans bridge
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — It didn’t start out as a Father’s Day present, but now the tables were turned. New Orleans-born Harry Connick Jr., 48, took […]
Priest, dance partner lasso $10,000 for Milwaukee archdiocesan charity
MILWAUKEE (CNS) — Father Matthew Widder is more than comfortable in his black clerics and Roman collar. Give him a lasso, cowboy hat, and dancing boots […]
Movie: ‘Me Before You’
NEW YORK (CNS) — The folks behind the grand-scale weepie “Me Before You” (Warner Bros.) clearly intend their audience to come to the multiplex armed with […]