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February 29, 2016

Oscar-winning Spotlight not anti-Catholic

Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo and Brian d'Arcy James star in a scene from the movie "Spotlight."

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican newspaper has come to the defense of the Oscar-winning film, Spotlight, which has been viewed as “anti-Catholic” by some observers.

Published in Faith
February 22, 2015

Oscar's got nothin' on us: The real best movies, family films of 2014

Michael Pena stars in a scene from the movie "Cesar Chavez."

NEW YORK - The year just past saw the release of a number of films whose celebrated cinematic quality was not matched by moral merit.

Published in Movie News
April 13, 2012

Benedictine nun who as young actress starred with Elvis returns to film

Mother Dolores Hart, prioress of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., is pictured in an undated photo. Mother Dolores , who starred alongside Elvis Presley in the 1957 movie "Loving You," is featured in a short HBO documentary titl ed "God Is the Bigger Elvis," which is about her and the other cloistered nuns at the Bethlehem abbey.

BETHLEHEM, Conn. - On Hollywood's red carpet Feb. 26, the night of the 84th Academy Awards presentations, actress Michelle Williams was wearing Louis Vuitton. Cameron Diaz was wearing Victoria Beckham.

Black-habited Mother Dolores Hart, prioress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, told reporters she was wearing the seventh-century Benedictine St. Telchilde.

"They didn't know what I was talking about," Mother Dolores said in an interview at the rural Connecticut abbey 12 days and 3,000 miles later with The Catholic Transcript, newspaper of the Hartford Archdiocese.

Published in Movie News