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Fr. Charles Aboody, founder of Melkite seminary, dies

Father Charles Aboody, one of the first Americans trained to serve the Melkite Church in the United States, died May 29 at age 85. He was in residence at Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Church in McLean and would have celebrated his 55th jubilee as a priest June 10.
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Author explores friendship of President Reagan and Pope John Paul II

By Elizabeth A. Elliott

Both President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II survived assassination attempts, forgave their shooters, suspected Russian involvement in the assassination attempts and wanted to defeat communism. Reagan, a Protestant, considered Pope John Paul II a close friend and the feeling was mutual.

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Pope Francis

Pope will not make South Sudan visit this year

By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will not visit South Sudan in October with Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury as he had hoped, the Vatican spokesman said. Greg Burke, the spokesman, told reporters May 30 the trip “was not for this year.” With the civil war worsening and famine spreading, Pope Francis already in March had […]
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Doctors said Chilean mom would die, but miracle credited to Spanish priest

By Jane Chambers
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chileans call it the Chilean miracle.   And this October, when Pope Francis canonizes Spain’s Blessed Faustino Miguez, the woman at the center of the miracle — Veronica Stoberg Tejo — hopes to be in attendance. Stoberg lives with her husband and family in a part of Santiago called La Florida. In […]
National

Father of four killed trying to protect fellow passengers in Portland

By Ed Langlois
PORTLAND, Ore. — On a crowded Portland commuter train May 26, a selfless Catholic father of four stepped forward to calm a tense situation. He was that kind of guy.   Rick Best defended two women being accosted by a passenger yelling hate speech about Muslims and other groups. Best, a 53-year-old member of Christ […]
National

Remembering the fallen

Services were held across the nation on Memorial Day May 29 to recall the ultimate sacrifice made by the men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces. 
Global

Priest says Egypt’s Christians feel they could be martyrs at any time

By Catholic News Service
CAIRO — Christians in Egypt “are getting to this idea that we could be a martyr at any moment,” the spokesman for the nation’s Catholic bishops told Catholic News Service.   The spokesman, Father Rafic Greiche, also lamented the number of children killed in an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Orthodox Christians to St. […]

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