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Before every mission, soldiers join the members of their unit and their leaders to review their mission and the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) they’ll use to accomplish the mission. Virtually everybody knows the TTP, but that doesn’t matter, because today is a new day. The unit walks through the scenarios they may encounter and […]

Bishop Ireton High School students pray the rosary outside of an abortion clinic with Bishop Burbidge during 40 Days for Life campaign

Before it became a stop on the Orange Line and the center of Arlington’s vibrant nightlife, Clarendon was known as Little Saigon. In the years following the Vietnam War, thousands of Vietnamese refugees settled in the Washington metropolitan area.

VATICAN CITY — Addressing the challenges of evangelization in one of the world’s most remote areas and the connection between faith and environmental concern, Pope Francis announced a special gathering of the Synod of Bishops to focus on the Amazon region.   “Accepting the wish of several episcopal conferences of Latin America as well as […]
MOSCOW — A few blocks from Moscow’s Lubyanka Building, which for decades served as the headquarters of the Soviet Union’s KGB security agency, the Russian Orthodox patriarch recently consecrated a church memorializing those martyred during communism’s reign.   “While we were in procession around the church, people were standing with portraits of those martyred and […]
The newly-formed Refugee Support Ministry at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Arlington began as a conversation over the summer about how to respond to refugee resettlement issues, said parishioner Anne Murphy.   “The timing was perfect given Pope Francis’ new initiative focusing on refugees and immigrants,” she said. Now an ongoing effort, the […]
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, to be his special envoy at the Dec. 8 dedication of the Trinity Dome at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.   Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl […]

The Catholic Church teaches that, while we always affirm the indissolubility of marriage, a person is not obliged to remain in a violent or abusive situation. When violence (or the continual threat of violence) threatens the physical safety and the innate dignity of one of the spouses in a marriage, that person is free — and for the sake of children, perhaps even obliged — to leave, at least temporarily, until professionals are able to assist. 

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