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catholicnewsherald.com | May 10, 2013 CATHOLIC NEWS HERALD
On TV
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n Saturday, May 11, 9:45 p.m. “Flower in the Desert.” The Monastery of St. Anthony in the Valley of Qozhaya in Northern Lebanon and a history of St. Anthony, Superior of the monastery and father of the monastic life.
In theaters
n Sunday, May 12, 3:30-6 a.m. (EWTN) “Canonization Mass.” Live coverage as Pope Francis canonizes Sister Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui, Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala and Blessed Antonio Primaldo and Companions. n Sunday, May 12, 5:30 p.m. (EWTN) “Miraculous Medal & Our Lady of Grace.” Mary made two great visits to France. Father Apostoli shows how the two apparitions have something in common: Both of them deal with Our Lady under her title as the Immaculate Conception.
‘Pain and Gain’ Nasty fact-based crime chronicle - set in the early 1990s - in which a trio of dim-witted bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) kidnap an abrasive but successful businessman (Tony Shalhoub) and torture him into signing over all his holdings to them. Thanks in large part to the efforts of a straight-arrow police officer-turned-private-eye (Ed Harris), however, their nearly successful scheme begins to unravel. In adapting a series of magazine articles by Pete Collins, director Michael Bay invites viewers to marvel at the he-men’s jaw-dropping stupidity. Yet their vicious antics, acted out within a lowlife milieu of strippers and porn pushers, are too repellent to be amusing, while snarky swipes at religion culminate in blasphemous humor and the character of a pervert priest. Negative portrayal of Christian faith and clergy, sometimes gory violence, strong sexual content. CNS: A-O (morally offensive); MPAA: R
‘Iron Man 3’ Special effects trump substance in this addition to the blockbuster screen franchise adapted from a series of Marvel comics dating back to 1963. As the titular superhero’s billionaire alter ego (Robert Downey Jr.) battles a mysterious, bin Laden-like terrorist (Ben Kingsley), their conflict endangers his now live-in girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow). The range of moral and immoral uses to which advanced technology can be turned are briefly explored through the characters of two promising scientists gone bad and through the protagonist’s newly developed anxiety attacks, which leave him questioning his reliance on gadgetry. Much action violence with some gore, cohabitation, an off-screen nonmarital sexual encounter, at least one use of profanity, occasional crude language. CNS: A-III (adults); MPAA: PG-13
Additional reviews: n ‘The Big Wedding’: CNS: 0 (morally offensive); MPAA: PG-13 n ’The Place Beyond the Pines’: CNS: A-L (limited adult audience); MPAA: R
n Sunday, May 15, 2:30 p.m. (EWTN)“Images of Mary – Christ’s Disciples.” Father Alfred McBride explains how Mary is mentioned in the Bible many times as having traveled with Jesus and listened to His sermons. She supported Him in prayer and love, without proclaiming herself as this famous man’s mother. n Thursday, May 16, 2 p.m. (EWTN) “Fatima – Our Hope.” A history of the Fatima apparitions with a further background of that area of Portugal, the global spiritual response and Pope John Paul II’s visit there in 1982.
For the love of painting Maria Johnson O.Henry Magazine
GREENSBORO — Last month Monsignor Anthony Marcaccio, pastor of St. Pius X Church in Greensboro, was hung. On a wall. In the church. Last year, St. Pius X parishioners hired up-and-coming British artist Nancy Fletcher to paint a life-size portrait of the jovial Monsignor Marcaccio. Commissioning a pastor’s portrait is not a common practice, but Monsignor Marcaccio is not a common pastor. He has led St. Pius X for almost 13 years, and the number of registered families at the parish has more than doubled over that time. A few years ago, he oversaw a $7 million expansion to house the growing flock. “He’s so loved,” says parishioner Julie Clark, who spearheaded the drive to paint Monsignor Marcaccio. “He wants so much for this church and this community to succeed, and he wants everybody to be a part of it. That kind of enthusiasm is catchy.” The idea to get Fletcher to paint Monsignor Marcaccio hatched after Clark saw one of Fletcher’s pieces in downtown Greensboro in late 2011. The painting – of a raven-haired woman – was part of the annual Winter Show at
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art. “It was so well-executed,” Clark says of the portrait, which suggested an artist with classical training. Later that night, Clark met Fletcher and discovered she’d studied in Florence. That’s where she met her fiancé Travis Seymour, an artist from Morehead City. They were working in a Wilmington studio when Greenhill’s Edie Carpenter found them as she scouted for Winter Show artists. The couple already knew about Greensboro. They’d been to the Proximity Hotel for an art event to benefit Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test. Everyone in Greensboro had been so kind to them; selling Fletcher on painting Monsignor Marcaccio was easy. Selling Monsignor Marcaccio was harder. “I said, ‘This is crazy. It’s going to be seen as extravagant, like, Who does he think he is?’” said Monsignor Marcaccio. “I was totally against it.” He softened after seeing pictures of Fletcher’s work – “I said, ‘Holy mackerel! This is not your average portrait painter.’” – and gathering assurances that the painting would include symbols of the parish’s awardPAINTING, SEE page 25
n Saturday, May 18, noon-2 p.m. (EWTN) “Solemn Mass of Pentecost from Rome.” Pope Francis celebrates the vigil Mass of Pentecost, followed by the Angelus, live from Vatican City. n Saturday, May 18, 5 p.m. (EWTN) “Eldest Daughter of the Church – Sun of Justice.” Events on the life of the Sun King and Anne from Austria, the Convent of Paray-Le-Monial and of St. Margarite Alacoque. n Wednesday, May 22, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “Lives of the Saints – St. Rita of Cascia.” A look at the life of this stigmatized Augustinian nun who was known as a beautiful peacemaker. n Thursday, May 23, 2 p.m. (EWTN) “Saint Margaret Clitherow.” The remarkable story of life and death of St. Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic martyr, who was executed for hiding hunted Catholic priests during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. n Thursday, May 23, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “Greatest Love Story.” Mother Mary Assumpta, O.P., discusses the needs of the order along with vocational comments from several of the sisters. n Friday, May 24, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “God in Tibet.” Examine life in Seisong, Tibet, a village of 600, where more than 80 percent of the families are Catholic. Under the Communist regime, there are no priests available to lead the faithful.