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Hundreds attend Porto Charities awards gala

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Porto Charities’ second annual advocacy awards gala drew more than 400 people for a joyful evening at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria April 20. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge concelebrated Mass with Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde; Father Jamie Workman, diocesan vicar general; and others. Students and young adults of all abilities served as altar …

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4/26/24

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Pope asks lay Catholics to prepare for synod’s ‘prophetic’ stage

By Justin McLellan

VATICAN CITY — The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics discussed, Pope Francis said. With the second synod assembly scheduled for October, the pope said the synod process is approaching its “most challenging and important” stage — the point at …

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4/25/24

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How did your legislators vote?

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During the 2024 Virginia General Assembly session, state senators and delegates cast key votes on critical issues impacting human life, dignity, and the common good. The Virginia Catholic Conference, the public policy agency representing Virginia’s Catholic bishops and their two dioceses, released a report on the session April 24. The report contains three charts: A …

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4/24/24

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Faith, hope, love are antidote to pride, pope says at audience

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY — While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope and love emphasize a connection to other people fueled by belief in God and reliance on prayer, Pope Francis said. “The Christian is never alone. He or she does good not …

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4/24/24

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Acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli says faith is believing in the power of good

By George P. Matysek Jr.

For one brief moment at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the hopes of the world seemed concentrated on a single man standing alone outside the massive Duomo di Milano in Italy. Andrea Bocelli, one of the most acclaimed tenors of his time, kept his arms at his sides and remained motionless as his powerful …

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4/24/24

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Pope clears way for canonization of Oblates of the Holy Spirit founder

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY — As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group began to pray for a miracle. Pope Francis recognized the healing of the man, “Paulo G.,” in Uberlandia, Brazil, as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Elena …

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4/24/24

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Cardinal Raymond Burke speaks at Christendom College symposium in Front Royal

A graduate school symposium features Cardinal Raymond Burke and other theologians.

4/22/24

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Clergy appointments

Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments:

4/22/24

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New Pavilion Estates receive a blessing

Among rolling hills, lush green trees and flowers sits the new Pavilion Estates at Fairfax Memorial Park Cemetery in Fairfax. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed the cemetery addition April 16. Bishop Burbidge opened the ceremony by thanking the Fairfax Memorial Park staff and addressing those gathered. “It is a great honor, friends, to join you …

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4/18/24

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Columns

The Good Shepherd

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Mystery of the Mass

By Mary Beth Bonacci

Being the odd one out

By Elizabeth Foss

Gowns of grace, heaps of joy

By Christina Capecchi

National

Famed Catholic sculptor addresses Washington Legatus chapter

4/18/24

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Baltimore archbishop attends bankruptcy hearing, listens to testimony from abuse victims

4/11/24

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Baltimore archdiocese ministers to crew aboard ship involved with Key Bridge collapse

3/26/24

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Bishop Burbidge invites faithful to prayer as Supreme Court hears case on abortion drugs

3/26/24

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St. Mary’s Gaels men’s basketball team makes history, heads to NCAA tournament

3/22/24

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Pope suggests playing checkers to keep the mind sharp

VATICAN CITY — While misusing modern forms of media dulls the mind, games like checkers are a simple way to stimulate one’s intellect and foster community, Pope Francis said. Checkers “is a game that exercises (one’s) logical ability,” the pope told members of the Italian Checkers Foundation April 26. “And there is a need for …

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4/26/24

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Pope Francis meets with officers of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Pope Francis held his regular spring meeting with the officers of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops April 18 in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.

4/24/24

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Pope’s representative to U.S. warns of ‘auto-referential’ church

ROME — The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more “auto-referential” and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis’ representative to the United States said. Speaking with Catholic News Service before formally taking possession of his titular church in Rome April 21, Cardinal Christophe …

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4/22/24

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Jesus laid down his life out of love for each person, pope says

VATICAN CITY — When Jesus called himself the “good shepherd,” he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important to him and “that he thinks of each of us as the love of his life,” Pope Francis said. “Consider this: for Christ, I am important, he thinks of …

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4/22/24

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Arts

New film ‘Unsung Hero’ emphasizes the ‘power of family’

St. Teresa of Calcutta once said: “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” Her words appear at the end of the new movie “Unsung Hero,” which tells the true story of the Smallbone family, widely recognized in the music industry for brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone of the Grammy-award-winning …

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4/22/24

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Local author discusses Salesian spirituality

St. Francis de Sales Church in Kilmarnock hosted author Margaret Margeton April 10 to speak about what Catholics today can learn from the parish’s patron. Margeton, a longtime member of the St. Francis de Sales Association (also known as the Daughters of St. Francis de Sales), has written two books about the popular saint. Her …

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4/18/24

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Flannery O’Connor film shows ‘God can deliver his grace in any way’

A new film depicting the life of American writer Flannery O’Connor, whose work reflected her Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of faith, morality, and suffering, will be released in theaters May 3. The movie follows O’Connor as she struggles with a lupus diagnosis at age 24, the same disease that took her father’s life, …

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4/18/24

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Easter

Russell Shaw

Easter redemption

4/4/24

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New Catholics welcomed at Easter Vigil

4/2/24

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Easter Mass at expo center

4/2/24

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