Anita Crane column
It is with great sadness to report that Anita Crane passed away on November 10, 2023, at age 62. We offer our prayers to her family at this time, and want to express our appreciation to her for the many years she wrote for RenewAmerica.
Her obituary can be viewed here.
Anita Crane is a writer and editor with B.A. in Catholic Theology from Christendom College. She defends human rights in the light of Christ.
Her obituary can be viewed here.
Anita Crane is a writer and editor with B.A. in Catholic Theology from Christendom College. She defends human rights in the light of Christ.
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June 14, 2023
I had great hope about the movie Padre Pio directed by Abel Ferrara. The name Padre Pio means Father Pius and I had great hope because Shia LaBeouf, who plays . . .
Anita Crane
May 31, 2023
Few movies have made me scream, but I screamed a few times as I watched the movie Nefarious. Every moment of this fictional drama gripped me while I watched it . . .
Anita Crane
March 29, 2019
Los Angeles – The movie "Unplanned" is about how brutal truth helped Abby Johnson to choose beautiful truth and redemption. Ten years ago, Johnson . . .
Anita Crane
November 19, 2015
Preface: The Terri Schiavo case is now a big deal in presidential politics with media focusing on two Republican contenders. According to Ed O'Keefe at the . . .
Anita Crane
October 3, 2015
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis came to the United States of America at a very dramatic time in our nation's history. If we ever needed the Vicar of Christ, it . . .
Anita Crane
September 27, 2015
Pope Francis – or Papa Francisco, as I like to call him in his native language – has been the top news story all week. After cordial publicity . . .
Anita Crane
August 21, 2015
"No social movement has ever succeeded without people looking at the victims," said Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League. "We learn 90-some . . .
Anita Crane
April 24, 2015
Pepper Flynt Busbee isn't the tallest eight year old in town, but he thinks big. Bullies push him around every chance they get, but Pepper wants to be a hero. . . .
Anita Crane
September 16, 2014
"Justice and the right to know the truth require us, from the pulpit, to repeatedly demand a limit on the tyranny of censorship." – Father Jerzy . . .
Anita Crane
May 31, 2014
This Sunday, June 1, and Monday, June 2, a miracle of sorts takes place on mainstream TV as PBS affiliates broadcast a documentary about a heroic Catholic . . .
Anita Crane
September 7, 2013
Catholics are supposed to be the champions of human rights. We are 25 percent of the U.S. population, yet Barack Obama was twice elected president and he wages . . .
Anita Crane
July 31, 2013
President Obama tried to divert attention from his abuse of the American people by saying he had been profiled because of his skin color and he could've been . . .
Anita Crane
May 18, 2013
"The left pits people against one another: divide and conquer. I don't want to live in that world – I'm sick of living in that world. I live in that world . . .
Anita Crane
May 10, 2013
A noted specialist on Islamic law and ideology from the Center for Security Policy, who has been cited as an expert for the Pentagon, says a coalition of . . .
Anita Crane
September 18, 2012
Americans are flocking to independent films in this year of 2012. One of these indies, "October Baby" with John Schneider, is now on DVD and very timely as . . .
Anita Crane
September 14, 2012
Back in 2008, stem cell scientist and medical doctor James Sherley wrote an Independence Day op-ed called True Liberty and Justice for All Ages because he was . . .
Anita Crane
November 16, 2010
Yesterday, Steve Ertelt of LifeNews.com wrote: "The fiscally conservative tea party activists were crucial to electing pro-life candidates in the 2010 mid-term . . .
Anita Crane
September 29, 2010
Many of Robert Liparulo's boyhood dreams have come true. Now, as a successful writer, Liparulo speaks at schools around the United States, where he inspires . . .
Anita Crane
July 15, 2010
The lengthy saga of the black Cherokees fighting racism in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is slowly but surely moving forward. To understand the crux of the . . .
Anita Crane
May 25, 2010
Ken Blackwell's discussion of The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" didn . . .
Anita Crane
May 14, 2010
You've probably seen people driving around with the Ichthys Christian fish symbol smack next to an Obama campaign sticker on their cars. Maybe both messages are . . .
Anita Crane
September 21, 2009
Al Gore received a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for claiming that humans cause global warming and an "accelerated melting of the north polar ice cap." Given such . . .
Anita Crane
August 21, 2009
With his reaction to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, President Obama diverted attention from his ill-formed healthcare agenda by throwing racism into the mix. . . .
Anita Crane
July 10, 2009
Today, The Hurt Locker expands from Los Angeles and New York City to more cities around the United States. From beginning to end, it is an eye-opening, teeth . . .
Anita Crane
July 8, 2009
President Barack Obama invited a group of Senate and House members to the White House for a June 25 meeting on comprehensive immigration reform. Among other . . .
Anita Crane
June 26, 2009
The beauty of immutable truth commands a certain silence, and this paradox is reason to see The Stoning of Soraya M., which opens today in select movie theaters . . .
Anita Crane
February 6, 2009
Maybe the producers at ABC, CBS and NBC were so tuckered after televising President Barack Obama's inauguration that they didn't notice an estimated 250,000 . . .
Anita Crane
December 14, 2008
These days, many Christians in America are downhearted. No wonder! In addition to economic distress and news of terrorism, the presidential election revealed . . .
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