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January 10, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty 

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

Published in Movie News
May 4, 2012

Al-Qaida official called Catholics 'fertile ground' for conversion

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addresses a news conference in Afghanistan in this May 26, 1998, file photo. American al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn wrote to Bin Laden in January 2011 and laid out reasons for reaching out to Catholics.

DUBLIN - A U.S. al-Qaida official concluded that Catholics were "fertile ground" for conversion, "particularly after the rage expanding against the mother Church (Vatican) as a result of its scandals and policies refused by many of its public."

American al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn wrote Osama bin Laden in January 2011 and laid out reasons for reaching out to Catholics, particularly the Irish. He urged bin Laden to use public anger at the Church's mishandling of clerical abuse to encourage Irish people to convert to Islam, according to newly declassified documents.

Published in International