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The replica Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape was on display at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1947 Marian Congress.

Film to chronicle Our Lady of the Cape

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Canadian Catholic filmmaker Kevin Dunn was spellbound when he first heard the story of Our Lady of the Cape.

This is a scene from the movie "Cuties" streaming on Netflix.

Netflix's 'Cuties': Exploration of immigrant experience or child exploitation?

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NEW YORK -- Controversy has surrounded the airing on Netflix of the French film "Cuties" ("Mignonnes").

Filmmaker Hermann Boya intends to make art that promotes living like Christ.

Faith is Quebec filmmaker’s 'Destination'

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Though he grew up in a religious household in Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), West Africa, it was in 2009, at age 26, when Hermann Boya sanctified his bond with God by entering into the Catholic faith.

Jorge Lamelas (Francisco), Alejandra Howard (Jacinta) and Stephanie Gil (Lucia) play the three children at the heart of Fatima.

Showing the beauty in Fatima’s truth

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When Mary steps out of the blinding light of the sun and into view for three children who have broken away from watching over a few sheep to pray the rosary, she isn’t surrounded by angels. No trumpets blare. Before the musical score rises to support this moment in the new film Fatima, there are crickets and birdsong and distant bleats of sheep. Mary is surrounded by hills, trees, fields and blue sky.

The Divine Mercy, conceived by St. Faustina and painted by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski in 1934.

St. Faustina film sends a timely message

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It’s a cliché heard all the time: “This is a movie that is so right for its time.”

Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis and Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict in a scene from The Two Popes.

'Two Popes' in search of truth

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Anthony McCarten wants the truth and nothing but the truth. To get at the truth, he has made up a fictional dialogue between the Church’s two living popes.

St. John Paul II greets throngs of Poles waiting for a glimpse of their native son at the monastery of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa during his 1979 trip to Poland.

Film highlights John Paul II alliance with Reagan

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WASHINGTON -- Forty years after his first pilgrimage to Poland, a film and book has been released exploring St. John Paul II’s alliance with “deep spiritual bond” with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Abby Johnson appeared at the National March for Life in Ottawa in April.

Filmmakers explore distribution

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EDMONTON -- After much debate and controversy, Unplanned may yet be hitting theatres across Canada. 

God Friended Me, pictured, is an example of a TV series that has characters operating “with a code of conduct and a conscience.”

Camera finally points at civility

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I paused the PVR and looked at my husband: “Did you notice what a big deal they were making about a first kiss?” 

Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem play a couple whose country-home serenity is upended with the arrival of another couple.

'mother!' adds new twist on God and Bible

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Darren Aronofsky’s latest film mother! has certainly stirred up a storm, and no wonder. It features murder, point-blank executions, incinerations and the killing and devouring of a child.
Ye Win (Nelson Lee) instructs Rev. Michael Spurlock (John Corbett) where to plant the crops to be grown in the fields at All Saints Church, in the new movie All Saints. At right is Spurlock.

Inspiring lesson in film of church revival

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It was an impossible task.

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