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As the government closure continues, federal employees fret over finances and look for ways to stay busy.
Although the weeklong retreat for U.S. Catholic bishops emphasized quiet reflection, several bishops spoke out on social media during the retreat and after it wrapped up Jan. 8 with positive reaction about it and to give shoutouts to the retreat leader, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, who has preached to popes and top officials of the Roman Curia for nearly 40 years.
Bishop Joseph Lawson Howze, the founding bishop of the Diocese of Biloxi and the first black bishop in the 20th century to head a U.S. diocese, died Jan. 9. He was 95.
Nationwide efforts to confront human trafficking received a boost in the new year as President Donald Trump signed a bill reauthorizing federal expenditures for prevention and assistance programs across the federal government.
Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean were taken to shore in Malta Jan. 9 after being kept at sea while European nations argued over who was responsible for them.
The Virginia Catholic Conference — the public policy agency of the Commonwealth’s Catholic bishops and their two dioceses — will pursue the initiatives described below during the 2019 Virginia General Assembly session, which began Jan. 9.
A member of the committee organizing Pope Francis' February summit on the sexual abuse crisis said the meeting should include discussing ways to hold bishops accountable for handling cases correctly.
Five men will be ordained by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge to the permanent diaconate Jan. 12 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington at 11 a.m.
Local singers describe their pilgrimage to Rome as faith-filled and ‘life-changing.’
With so much of our lives concentrated on work, personal and family responsibilities, and the inevitable detours to our carefully planned calendars, the arrival of Sunday Mass can sometimes find us breathless and far from spiritually or otherwise prepared to deeply participate in the liturgy.
