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Senior says prayer helped thwart scam

Learn more about the latest ways scammers try to separate seniors from their money.

4/2/19

Catholic Herald Staff Writer

Following Mary’s fiat

Since I was a child, the solemnity of the Annunciation (March 25) has been a day marked with celebration and my own personal fiat to the will of God.

4/11/19

Special to the Catholic Herald

Persevering through Lent

It happens to all of us. Every Lent, we come up with a list of things we will eat less or do more.

4/11/19

Special to the Catholic Herald
Meditation at the foot of the cross

I could not look him in the face. I was grappling with my sin and sinfulness, seeking to understand them in all their horror, that I might hate them. More

4/11/19

Special to the Catholic Herald

Friendship inspires sawdust art

Alfo-Conce — an ever-expanding group of artisans from Guatemala with a knack for creating beautiful religious iconography out of sawdust — began prep work for their Holy Week art during a meetup in Arlington March 30.More

4/8/19

George Goss | Catholic Herald Multimedia Journalist

Hockey sticks in Italy

Living so far from our homes, fraternity is a treasured element of seminary life. There are many things we do to foster this community, but I have found few are as unifying as sports. More

3/27/19

By JOSEPH F. MOSCHETTO | Special to the Catholic Herald

Why we wear a habit

How a person perceives the truth and preciousness of one’s body is reflected in the clothing chosen to express it. A More

3/27/19

By SR. MARY TIMOTHY PROKES | Special to the Catholic Herald

Praying from the Pit

Just before I left for the Holy Land, a priest friend asked me to pray for him from “the pit,” the sacred place beneath the house of Caiaphas, where Jesus was imprisoned the night before his crucifixion. More

3/27/19

By DEACON SEAN T. KOEHR | Special to the Catholic Herald

Hooked on the fish fry

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge joined parishioners of St. James Church in Falls Church for their Lenten fish fry March 15. Over the past 10 years, the event has more than doubled with as many as 700 guests on any given Friday of Lent. More

3/19/19

New marriage ministry encourages Fredericksburg couples to let God guide them

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church’s new marriage ministry organizes its first conference. More

3/14/19

Ashleigh Kassock | For the Catholic Herald

Follow the life of St. Oscar Romero

Our first stop was San Salvador, a metropolitan area of 2.4 million, where most visits in search of St. Romero's history take place: the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, where he is buried; the chapel of Divine Providence Hospital, where he was martyred March 24, 1980; and the small room nearby where he lived during his three years as archbishop, from 1977 until 1980. More

3/14/19

Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service

The catacombs of St. Callixtus

The catacombs of Rome are mounds of bones, flickering torchlight, the whispers of persecuted Christians long past. More

3/14/19

By DEACON EDOUARD B. GUILLOUX | Special to the Catholic Herald

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