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By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
During a recent family reunion, my elderly mother and I were the only ones at the table without smart phones. We felt left out. A few days later I read that Pope Francis advised parents to ban mobile devices from the dinner table to help restore the quality of family relationships. These two occurrences reminded […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – After almost three decades of tense Catholic-Russian Orthodox relations, Pope Francis will meet Patriarch Kirill of Moscow Feb. 12 in Cuba on the pope’s way to Mexico. It will be the first-ever meeting of a pope and Moscow patriarch, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters Feb. 5. As Pope Francis […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
AMHERST, Ohio – The foot-tapping melodies of Polish-style polka music that greets patrons as they enter the Kiedrowski family’s bake shop says that old-world hospitality is at hand. The upbeat music, owner Tim Kiedrowski says, is meant to evoke the memories of traditional food, family customs and church life. And in the days before Lent, […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Although the number is not high, it is no longer “exceptional” to have priests turn down an appointment as bishop, said Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Speaking Feb. 1 about the annual course his office sponsors for new bishops, the cardinal was asked about rumors that more […]
Local
By Special To The Herald
It is no secret that grandparents play an important role in the lives of their grandchildren. From giving encouragement and life advice to helping out as a caretaker, many turn to their grandparents for support. In fact, 72 percent of grandparents take care of their grandchildren on a regular basis, and 70 percent of those […]
Arts
By Nora Hamerman
The very name of Jesus Christ reveals the dual environment into which Our Savior was born in Roman-ruled Judea around, as scholars now believe, between 6 and 4 B.C. Jesus is a Jewish name, and Christ (the anointed one) is Greek. The Christian order gradually, over centuries, came to replace the Greco-Roman one. No one […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Church in Annandale welcomed Bishop Kurt R. Burnette from the Eparchy (Diocese) of Passaic, N.J., Jan. 30 as he ordained a local man to the priesthood. Deacon Lewis Michael Rabayda was born in Summit Hill, Pa., in 1983. After graduating from the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, he came […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
In one of his informative dispatches from Rome during the Synod on the Family last fall, Robert Royal remarked with regret on the extent to which the synod fathers appeared to have taken their prescriptions for families from a secular playbook instead of from their own Catholic tradition. Most synod participants, Royal wrote, “seemed to […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Today, Pérez-Alcalá is a consecrated layman at McLean's Stabat Mater, a secular Marian institute founded by Father Tomás Morales Pérez in Madrid. But once he was an engineering student who was completely unaware that his life was about to change on an otherwise ordinary day walking down the streets of Madrid.
Columns
By Ashleigh Buyers
To kick off their celebration of the Year of Mercy, St. Ambrose Church in Annandale is inviting everyone in the diocese to embrace Pope Francis’ call to live mercifully like the Father through a new lecture series. The talks discuss related topics of mercy and the lives of saints who exemplify this virtue. The first […]
