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By Mark Pattinson
Priests traveling on cruise ships are not just there for the wind and the waves. Although they may indeed be enjoying the same amenities as other passengers, they are working. “This is real ministry. It’s not necessarily heavy-lifting ministry, but it is ministry,” said Father Sinclair Oubre, who until early 2013 was president of the […]
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Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., will host this year’s Quo Vadis and Fiat Days, sponsored by the diocesan Office of Vocations. Quo Vadis Days, a camp for rising-ninth through rising-12th grade boys, will be held July 26-30. Fiat Days, a camp for rising-ninth through rising-12th grade girls, will be held July 12-16. The […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Little white crosses scattered before a statue of the Holy Family make up a poignant memorial called the Cemetery for Aborted Children in South Korea. Home to about 15 million Christians, South Korea suffers the highest rate of abortion in the world. During his trip to the country last August, Pope Francis visited the site […]
Arts
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond will host the annual Edgar Allan Poe Young Writers’ Conference for high school students June 21-27. Founded in 2004 by Harry Lee Poe, author and cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, the conference offers daily writing workshops, as well as seminars led by writing professionals, novelists, editors, journalists, poets […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A top Vatican official received a ransom demand for the return of Renaissance-era documents by the artist Michelangelo. Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, “received a proposal to recover such documents at a certain price,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. “Naturally he refused as it concerned stolen […]
Columns
Children sled on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington during a snowstorm March 5.
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By Dave Borowski
“The one thing prisoners have a lot of,” said Bill Hall, diocesan prison ministry coordinator at Catholic Charities, “is time.” That time can be spent in many ways, some of them not good. Seniors at St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal are looking at books to keep prisoners at a local jail occupied. […]
Books
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
There is an old saying that life is a journey, not a destination. Where we end up is important, but getting there is the true test of character and imagination. That’s certainly the case in Be: The Journey of Rol, a new book by Ric Colegrove, a Warrenton resident and parishioner of Holy Trinity Church […]
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When Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh turned 91, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus of George Washington University, greeted him by saying, “Father Ted, I hope you’re going to live forever!” Father Hesburgh, the president emeritus of Notre Dame replied, “Steve, I already have!” Well, not quite; Father Hesburgh died Feb. 26 at age 97. […]
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Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde, chaplain of the Order of Malta, will celebrate a special Mass and administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick March 21 at St. Ambrose Church, 3901 Woodburn Road, Annandale, at 11 a.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit prayer petitions to Our Lady of Lourdes, which will be […]
