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By David Gibson | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Abdulaziz Sachedina is a professor of Islamic studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is a practicing Muslim who feels close to his Christian friends, he told Catholic News Service. Muslims and Christians do, in fact, share values, he said. Sachedina discussed Muslim-Christian relationships in a speech May 24 at Jesuit-run […]
Global
By Jonathan Luxmoore | Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – Although no date has been set, church leaders in Poland hope Pope Francis will visit the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz during an August 2016 visit to Poland for World Youth Day. “We hope Pope Francis will come to Auschwitz and deliver a warning to the world by again demonstrating the […]
Columns
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Couples who are seeking to marry, even those who have lived together, should value their engagement period as a time to grow in mature love and in profound knowledge of each other, said Pope Francis. The pope urged couples not to rush into marriage. Maturation in love before marriage is a slow […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis seems to describe his life in the Vatican almost as if he were in prison – at least as far as his freedom of movement goes. But that is not the first thing he cites when he talks about what he and prisoners have in common. When visiting a prison, […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Five local religious sisters celebrated milestone anniversaries of their religious life at a Jubilarian Mass May 20 at the Chapel of the Sacred Heart at Marymount University in Arlington. Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary Sisters Irene Cody and Jacqueline (Jackie) Murphy, celebrating 70 and 60 years respectively; Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart […]
Local
By Mary C. Tillotson | For The Catholic Herald
“Bless this house, which is now to become a home,” said Father Stan Krempa, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Winchester. He closed his prayer book and began sprinkling holy water in the living room, then the kitchen, then the bedrooms, bathrooms, garage and basement at New Eve Maternity Home in Winchester. “Anything […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
The King’s Men ministry began in 2004 when three men, Tony Luna, Damian Wargo and Mark Houck, talked about chastity after a Philadelphia Theology on Tap meeting. The topic of the evening was Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body,” a series of talks given at weekly Vatican audiences. The speaker for the evening […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – “Mission is a passion for Jesus and at the same time a passion for His people,” Pope Francis said in his message for World Mission Sunday. The two concerns always go hand in hand, He said, because just as a Christian knows others need to hear the Gospel, he or she knows […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
The Arlington Diocese participated in the country’s first Hindu-Catholic dialogue overseen by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue May 23 at Durga Hindu Temple in Fairfax Station. PCID President, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, presided as the distinguished guest, with leaders and scholars from both faiths reiterating the need for mutual respect not just in India but […]
Movies
Brittle comedy in which a high-strung police officer (Reese Witherspoon) is assigned to protect the volatile wife (Sofia Vergara) of a drug runner-turned-government-witness. But the gangster is gunned down in a plot involving corrupt cops (most prominently Michael Mosley and Matthew Del Negro), forcing the ill-suited pair to go on the run together. Director Anne […]
