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NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud in an image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Flickr/ESA/Webb)
Scripture for Life
Spirituality

Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe: A kingdom not of this polemical world

Mary M. McGlone
"Small Things Like These," based on the 2021 novel by Claire Keegan, thrusts Cillian Murphy ("Oppenheimer," "Peaky Blinders") into moral peril when family, acquaintances and respected women religious advise him to disregard institutional abuses that he has witnessed. (Lionsgate)
Culture

Magdalene laundries are topic of new Cillian Murphy film 'Small Things Like These'

Ryan Di Corpo
St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, in Venezuela in 1975 (CNS/Courtesy of Opus Dei)
Book Reviews
Culture

New book on Opus Dei is salacious, but fails to offer critical insight

Matt Murray
Olympic swimming champion Katie Ledecky visits her alma mater, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md., on Oct. 22 and listens as second grader Anna Reilly at right asks her a question. The other students from left to right are fourth grader Annie Siciliano, third grader Lilly Bracewell, first grader Amelia Farrell and kindergartener Bowen Wiegmann. (OSV News/Catholic Standard/Mihoko Owada)
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Faith, school and parish are source of strength for Olympic champion swimmer

Mark ZimmermannOSV News

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