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By Catholic News Service
President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that has been empty since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February.
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive memorandum intended to restrict the entry of terrorists coming to the United States brought an outcry from Catholic leaders across the U.S. Church leaders used phrases such as “devastating,” “chaotic” and “cruel” to describe the Jan. 27 action that left already-approved refugees and immigrants stranded at U.S. airports and […]
Local
By Connor Bergeron
The Klinker family creates saints in the palm of your hand.
Columns
By Thomas J. Craughwell
Saints Scholastica and Benedict designed an orderly, sane, yet spiritually concentrated way of life for men and women seeking God.
Columns
By Richard Doerflinger
This past presidential campaign, one of the most bruising and discouraging on record, left many of us dissatisfied with the electoral system and politics in general. As usual, Catholics voted for the winning candidate — despite internal divisions between churchgoers and nonchurchgoers and between white and Hispanic Catholics. And as usual, Catholics’ tendency to pick […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Spend a day in a surgery waiting room and you’ll witness a hundred quiet acts of mercy. Strangers gather for a host of reasons with a common cause: to sit beneath the slowest clock and wait it out. They make calls, utter prayers and flip through magazines, and in their anxiety, they extend morsels of […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
The following is inspired by C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, a fictionalized correspondence between two demons. My Dear Wormwood, Your last letter delighted me to no end and only heightened my pride as your uncle. You reported that your patient is “busy” and “stressed,” “overwhelmed” with the demands of “balancing” his job, marriage, and young children. […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
The new diocesan website comes on the heels of the new Catholic Herald website.
Local
By Mary Lee Clark and Tyler Hammel
RICHMOND – Attorney General Mark Herring, flanked by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, announced Jan. 31 that Virginia is taking legal action against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Herring called the order “unconstitutional and unlawful.” He said Virginia is already being hurt by the immigration ban. Herring said it affects […]
Pilgrims pack light