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The practice of Natural Family Planning enables couples to live out God’s design for married love by fostering authentic communication, openness to life and mutual respect within marriage. In a manner consistent with the teaching of Blessed Pope Paul VI, NFP helps to promote responsible parenthood while fostering the unique vocation of husbands and wives to bring human life into the world.
The Oblate House, a building on the Bishop Ireton High School campus in Alexandria, is the site of extensive training exercises for the Alexandria Fire Department July 21 and 23. At least 50 firefighters will train both days.
p class="Body">When Pope Francis visits Colombia in September, he will take his message of mercy and reconciliation to Cartagena, a city that still bears scars of its painful history as a slave port. And he will walk the streets where another Jesuit, St. Peter Claver, put that message into practice four centuries ago.
p class="Body">Father Arne Panula, 71, a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei, died July 19 after struggling for many months with cancer. He is survived by his three sisters, Lynne, Amy and Pat, their husbands, Wynne, Ralph and John, and 11 nephews and nieces.
More than 500 boys suffered abuse at the hands of dozens of teachers and priests at the school that trains the prestigious boys choir of the Regensburg Cathedral in Germany, said an independent investigator.
p class="Body">Catholic Facebook pages whose sponsors reported had been suddenly removed late July 17 were restored just over 24 hours later.
A beauty, a beast and an ogre are teaching youths spiritual lessons as part of the latest productions of the Upper Room Theatre Ministry in Manassas and Summer Theatre Program in Alexandria.
p class="Body">Bishop-designate Shlesinger, 56, served as the director of spiritual formation at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. He grew up in St. Louis Parish in Alexandria.
Philadelphia's ongoing struggle with opioid addiction has found an epicenter in the Kensington section of the city, where open-air heroin sales, drug usage and overdoses have become commonplace.
p class="Body">Denouncing the "demonization of migrants," hateful rhetoric, the militarization of the border and a system that divides families, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called on Catholics to heed the church's teachings to welcome the migrant.
