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Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Henry Cavill as Superman star in a scene from the movie Man of Steel. It’s the latest Hollywood incarnation of Superman and is playing in theatres now.

With Superman, right makes might

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There is a moment during the Zack Snyder film Man of Steel where we witness a convergence of two of the most recognized icons in the western world: the cross and the “S” on Superman’s chest.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan star in a scene from the movie The Great Gatsby. It’s the latest film version of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.

There is no escaping moral judgment

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The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby provides the occasion for reflecting on what many consider the great American novel.

Senator Roméo Dallaire with Bwira Kapoto, a former child soldier, at the UN transit camp for ex-combatants in Goma, Congo.

Dallaire a voice for the children

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Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire asks Anzoyo Tsukia, “Is Joseph Kony the devil incarnate?” A rosary hanging from her neck, she replies that Kony looks normal but everything he does is diabolical.

Academy Award nominees James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold as Craig and Irene Morrison in Still Mine.

Still life in old bones

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After more than six decades of marriage, love looks like Craig Morrison caring for his ailing wife Irene in Michael McGowan’s Still Mine. But this isn’t your typical sob story about aging.

Lucas Black and Chadwick Boseman star in a scene from the movie "42." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

42 inspires

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To paraphrase the title of an earlier movie about the national pastime, hate strikes out in the historical drama 42 (Warner Bros.) Writer-director Brian Helgeland's uplifting — if sometimes heavy-handed — film recounts the 1947 reintegration of professional baseball after decades of segregated play.

Fr. Isidore Ouedraogol, Caritas Burkina Faso general secretary, attended the Toronto premiere of A New Leaf, a documentary on Canadian and Caritas efforts to help those suffering from severe famine and drought in West Africa.

Canadians aid Caritas Niger in turning A New Leaf for the fight against severe drought

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There was severe hardship but no famine in West Africa last year. Crops failed, locusts and other insects consumed farmers’ fields and at least 18 million people suffered through a food shortage.

Francisco Rico-Martinez and his wife Loly Rico relive the atrocities of El Salvador’s civil war, which they lived through for more than a decade, while watching the music video for “Romero.”

Video brings awful memories flooding back

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Salvadorans remember Romero like it was yesterday

Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway star in a scene from Les Miserables, the big-screen adaptation of the long-running stage show.

Les Misérables show how love overpowers death

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On Christmas day a film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s book Les Miserables made its debut in theatres. Though Hugo had a less than perfectly benign view of the Catholic Church, his masterpiece is, from beginning to end, conditioned by a profoundly Christian worldview. It is most important that, amidst all of the “Les Miz” hoopla, the spiritual heart of Hugo’s narrative not be lost.

The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005-2010) are examples of films that might be deemed Catholic.

Year of Faith cinema

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In Porta Fidei (The Door of Faith), an apostolic letter announcing the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI urges us to study the history of Catholicism, which he describes as “marked by the unfathomable mystery of the interweaving of holiness and sin.”

The Hobbit is a coming-of-age story spun by J.R.R. Tolkein, a serious Catholic

The Hobbit and its Gospel ethics

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Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy and Moby Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is the story of a hero’s journey. This helps to explain, of course, why, like those other narratives, it has proved so perennially compelling.

U.S. Navy SEALs are portrayed in a scene from the movie "Zero Dark Thirty." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of Ameri ca rating is R --restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

Zero Dark Thirty 

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Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia) offers moviegoers a challenging account, based on real events, of the decade-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

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