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Updated: March 12th, 2010
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MARK PATTISON, Catholic News Service
Friday, 12 March 2010
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a world that boasts continual technological change, the iPhone by Apple has gained near-iconic status. Even Apple boasts there are more than 140,000 applications — or "apps," in Apple-speak — that users can obtain for their phones. It only follows that there would be some clever Catholics who have devised apps to bolster people's faith. Dave Brown of Bend, Ore., invented a virtual rosary-beads app as a ...
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JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 12 March 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—The early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the ultimately fruitless search for the Saddam regime's weapons of mass destruction, provide the context for "Green Zone" (Universal), an idealistic but raw combat dram...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 05 March 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—Wise viewers will want to "Keep Out" of "Cop Out" (Warner Bros.), a vulgar buddy comedy featuring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as long-standing New York City police partners.Suspended from the force when one of their c...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 26 February 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—Maniacs take over Main Street in the rural rampage "The Crazies" (Overture). Despite relatively lavish production values and some well-known stars, director Breck Eisner's updating of George A. Romero's low-budget 1973 ...
JOHN MULDERIG, Catholic News Service
Friday, 19 February 2010
NEW YORK (CNS)—This year, for the first time since 1943, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — as the folks behind the Oscars are formally known — allowed for 10 nominees, rather than five, in the category of best pict...
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Friday, 22 January 2010
TOLEDO—It is a gap in its collection of 17th-century masterworks that the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has been trying to fill for more than 50 years. Giovanni Francesco Barbi...
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010
MAUMEE—“Losing Maria,” a prevention film about domestic minor sex trafficking, premieres Jan. 10 with screenings at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Maumee Indoor Theatre, 601 Conant St.Th...
LAURIE STEVENS BERTKE, Chronicle Writer
Saturday, 26 September 2009
TOLEDO—A community of cloistered nuns gave a Catholic production company rare access inside their Toledo monastery to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie that features one of their own....

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