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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse of hundreds of children over several decades and an Oscar win for “Spotlight,” about the Boston abuse scandal, “brought painful, but important, reminders that we must remain vigilant in our efforts to protect children from the scourge of abuse,” said Bishop Edward J. Burns […]
Schools
By Maria Grau
The second semester of senior year can be a taxing time for students. At Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, many seniors are deeply involved in afterschool activities, whether they play a varsity sport, act in a PVI Players’ production or flaunt their school spirit in the “VI Man” student section. What their peers […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Four Missionaries of Charity and 10 to 12 other people were killed March 4 after uniformed gunmen entered a home the sisters operate for the elderly and disabled in Aden, Yemen. Several news outlets reported 16 people were killed, including patients. The superior of the Missionaries of Charity at the home survived […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published several commentaries reflecting on the possibility of allowing laypeople, including women, to preach at Mass. Women already guide retreats, lead conferences and preach in some circumstances, wrote French Dominican Sister Catherine Aubin. “So why can’t they preach before everyone during a celebration” of Mass? said the […]
Local
By Katie Scott
If you could perform a simple act that would make you feel strengthened, free and at peace, would you do it? Confession presents Catholics with such an opportunity, but for many individuals, even those who deeply love the church, confession is tough. Some avoid it for years, others for decades. Known also as penance or […]
Local
By For The Catholic Herald
Father Luke Willenberg, Second Battalion Chaplain of the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division’s 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, now holds the record for the fastest 12-mile foot march by any soldier ever to graduate from the U.S. Army’s elite DeClopper Air Assault School in Fort Bragg, N.C. Father Willenberg broke the previous record last month by […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
Hundreds of years ago, the lush green island of Ireland was controlled by the British crown, which suppressed the Catholic faith brought by St. Patrick centuries before. To keep their culture alive, the Irish people formed secret societies for the protection of the priests they needed to carry on the faith. When the potato famine […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its first abortion case in nine years March 2 in a challenge by Texas abortion clinics to a 2013 state law that requires them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers and their doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The almost 90 […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Generally uplifting fact-based drama in which a working-class English lad (Taron Egerton) aspires to become an Olympic athlete. The barriers standing in his way include a childhood disability, a near-total lack of natural talent, the dyed-in-the-wool snobbery of the British sports establishment and the firm opposition of his practical-minded father (Keith Allen). Yet, with the […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
“We cannot depart here unchanged,” said Father Paul D. Scalia in the funeral homily for his father, Justice Antonin Scalia. Indeed, as I listened to a son reflect on his dad and glimpsed the justice’s nine children and 36 grandchildren at the funeral, something about Justice Scalia’s fatherhood confronted me. “I have found his death […]
