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Nearly 1,000 high school students went “Back to the Source” (“Ad Fontem”) at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., during the Mount2000 retreat Feb. 8-10.
I am fond of saying that home should be a soft place to land. I believe it to the core of my being. I have always wanted to parent in such a way that my children know that when they walk through our doors they will find refuge. We’ll challenge them to live lives of virtue, but we’ll also be the place where they can ask honest questions, sort things out, and admit mistakes knowing that love is always unconditional.
Construction paper hearts, stickers and glitter glue covered tables in Poet’s Walk assisted living community in Fredericksburg Feb. 9, while conversation and laughter filled the room. The colorful mayhem was part of a St. Valentine's Day service projected led by St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church’s young adult group known as Verso l’Alto, which means, toward the top.
Blind since infancy, 11th-grader Andrea Darmawan, a parishioner of St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, loves to lector — even if it means overcoming a few obstacles.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge welcomed eleven men who are in the process of becoming permanent deacons during Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington Feb. 9.
Susan Young shared the story of her daughter's human trafficking survival and the impact it had on her family with members of the quarterly Parish Liaison Network meeting at St. Mark Church in Vienna Feb. 8.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals Feb. 7.
The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones, share in that anger and "want to move with real force" toward solutions and it could yield a new season for the church, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 6.
Among a sea of strollers and picket signs on the grounds of the Virginia Capitol, hundreds of people demonstrated Feb. 7 against abortion — and especially against Democratic proposals to ease restrictions on late-term abortions.
Today with brothers and sisters in Christ in our universal Church, we observe the World Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking.
