About the film: Juwaa

 

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About the film: Juwaa is a subtly powerful drama offering African characters rarely seen on screens. Years after a traumatic night, a son and a mother reconcile and slowly peel away the layers of their complex relationship.

About the Director: Nganji Mutiri is an award-winning artist born in Bukavu, DRC and currently living in Belgium. He works in theatre, cinema, poetry, and photography, always looking for connections and perspectives between the singular and the universal. 

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The Catholic church offering free tattoos? It’s a cross I’d be happy to bear
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“The blind man is the human race”

 

Transgender ideology makes inroads in Archdiocese of Guadalajara

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman on Mar 23, 2023 07:42 pm
A male-to-female “transgender” drag queen performer in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico has received a new baptismal certificate affirming his female self-identity, with the approval of an official of the city’s Catholic archdiocese. The issuance [...]
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Take a Lenten pilgrimage to Santiago—at the movies

By Steven D. Greydanus on Mar 23, 2023 06:45 pm
• Get tickets to Santiago: The Camino Within Like many people, I first learned about the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, from the 2011 movie The Way. The Camino is a network [...]
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Newly established Caucus aims to protect and promote the natural family

By Russell Shaw on Mar 23, 2023 03:58 pm
There’s a glimmer of hope for the embattled natural family emanating suddenly from a source that lately has been anything but family-friendly—I mean the federal government. But before getting into that, consider some landmarks in [...]
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Opinion: We need urgent action to protect kids from technology

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Mar 23, 2023 05:00 am
A frightening trend emerged when I was working in Catholic school administration. The acceleration of problems related to sexuality for young kids was startling, beginning even as early as kindergarten. There was one common source: [...]
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Conscience and leadership in the lives of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher

By Bishop Thomas John Paprocki on Mar 22, 2023 10:35 pm
Editor’s note: The following 2023 Chelsea Lecture was delivered by Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki at Chelsea Academy, in Front Royal, Virginia, on February 7, 2023.  It is good to be with you to deliver the [...]
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Prosecutors drop case of alleged ‘cover up’ against Benedict XVI

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 22, 2023 06:30 pm
The Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. / Diliff via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.5) CNA Newsroom, Mar 22, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). A potential legal case against Pope Benedict XVI over his handling of abuse during his ti... [...]
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Learning from the Saints, bringing Christ into a fallen world

By Paul Senz on Mar 22, 2023 03:00 pm
Dawn Marie Beutner converted to the Catholic faith as a young adult, and now writes extensively on the lives of the saints, and how the saints can be guides and models for us today. She [...]
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Extra, Extra! News and views for March 22, 2023

By CWR Staff on Mar 22, 2023 05:00 am
Conversion of Power – “Contrary to the storyline pushed by papal courtier Austen Ivereigh and others, Pope Francis exercises authority in the manner of a Jesuit superior who, after hearing those he chooses to hear, [...]
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Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans

By George Weigel on Mar 22, 2023 03:10 am
To vary Oscar Wilde, the Church’s liturgical life often imitates art by being strikingly appropriate to a particular moment. That was certainly true on Monday of the Third Week of Lent, 2023 — a day [...]
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World Down Syndrome Day an opportunity to teach, cherish, and love

By Susan Ciancio on Mar 21, 2023 09:51 pm
Would you throw away a chance at winning the Nobel Prize in order to tell the truth? That’s what French geneticist Jerome Lejeune did in 1969 when he won the William Allen Memorial Award from [...]
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Disconcerting quotations from Bishop Heiner Wilmer

By George Weigel on Mar 21, 2023 03:27 pm
Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of [...]
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A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy

By Andrew T.J. Kaethler on Mar 20, 2023 09:50 pm
The relation between ontology and history, writes Joseph Ratzinger, is “the fundamental crisis of our age.”1 It is the pressing question of contemporary theology, a question that Ratzinger repeatedly queries. In dense prose he argues [..]
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How to define “wokeness”

By Dr. Edward Feser on Mar 20, 2023 08:51 pm
A common talking point among the woke is the claim that “woke” is just a term of abuse that has no clear meaning.  Whether many of them really believe this or are just obfuscating is [...]
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U.S. bishops: Catholic health care providers shouldn’t perform ‘gender transition’ procedures

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 20, 2023 06:00 pm
null / Image credit: ADragan/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Mar 20, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The U.S. Catholic bishops released a statement Monday offering moral guidance for Catholic health care institutions, reiterating that “gender trans... [...]
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The often silent and surprising history of devotion to Saint Joseph

By Sandra Miesel on Mar 20, 2023 01:06 pm
As we celebrate this official Year of St. Joseph, announced on December 8, 2020 by Pope Francis, Catholics readily join in paying tribute to a great and well-loved saint. Surely Our Lord’s foster-father has always [...]
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Newsflash: Jesus Christ was right and Fr. Thomas Reese was wrong

By Kathy Schiffer on Mar 19, 2023 09:48 pm
Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, has long had a reputation for liberal-speak and theological confusion. For example, in a column he wrote for the National Catholic Reporter at the end of January 2023, Reese wrote “I [...]
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Responding to the ongoing Eucharistic meltdown

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Mar 19, 2023 08:26 pm
When I was a very young priest, I served as administrator of a high school quite lacking in the most important elements of a Catholic school; it was my task to address those deficiencies, among [...]
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A pope observed but not revealed

By Nick Olszyk on Mar 18, 2023 11:27 pm
Distribution Service: Theatrical (Limited) MPAA Rating, Not rated at the time of this review USCCB Rating,  Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 2.5 out of 5 reels In Viaggio, an Italian [...]
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French church vandalized with satanic and anarchist graffiti

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 18, 2023 10:00 am
Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 - Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). The walls of Sacred Heart Church, located in downtown Bordeaux, France, were vandalized wit... [...]
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“The blind man is the human race”

By Carl E. Olson on Mar 18, 2023 04:00 am
Readings: • 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a • Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 • Eph 5:8-14 • Jn 9:1-41 Scripture refers many times to the contrast between darkness and light. The first mention of this [...]
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A view from Germany: The Synodal Way abuses the Catholic Faith

By Anna Diouf on Mar 17, 2023 06:59 pm
The consequences of the Synodal Way cannot be gauged yet. Much was decided: The dioceses in Germany are to enable the blessing of homosexual couples. They are to allow lay people to preach at Mass. [...]
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The Rise and Rise of Antonin Scalia

By Austin Ruse on Mar 17, 2023 03:55 pm
At a Times Square hotel in 1994, Justice Antonin Scalia sat a table waiting to address 600 Catholics at a communion breakfast. A waiter approached, not with scrambled eggs and bacon, but with a package [...]
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