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The non-Judeo-Christian philosophical ideas that weighed down its immediate predecessor have mostly been excised from "Kung Fu Panda 4" (Universal). As a result, all but the smallest, most easily frightened moviegoers can patronize director Mike Mitchell's good-hearted, but not especially memorable, production.

If its 2021 predecessor was a fine film, "Dune: Part Two" (Warner Bros.) is nothing short of a knockout. While director and co-writer Denis Villeneuve is firing on all cylinders aesthetically, however, this continuation of the franchise includes a few morally problematic ingredients that were absent from the original.

Physician-assisted suicide, religious liberty among issues being debated

On the day after Thanksgiving, 1949, a group of Catholic women walked expectantly through the front door of 2321 Blaisdell Ave. in Minneapolis and were greeted by nuns in habits featuring distinctive purple capes.

After returning last year from a forced hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Men’s Conference moves forward this year with a focus on daily discipleship.

Pope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus' moral commandments to "never judge."

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini faced life-threatening health struggles and a crippling fear of water due to a near-drowning experience. And yet, she founded an order of missionary sisters tending to the poor and orphaned in dangerous parts of New York City and around the world, crossing the Atlantic Ocean 24 times in the process. She founded 67 hospitals, orphanages, schools and other charitable institutions up until the time of her passing in 1917.

During February, Pope Francis' monthly intentions asked the faithful to pray for the terminally ill -- as well as their families -- with the petition that they "receive the necessary physical and spiritual care and accompaniment."