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By Christie L. Chicoine
DARBY, Pa. – Cardinal John P. Foley, 75, a former editor of The Catholic Standard & Times in Philadelphia and former director of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications at the Vatican, is retiring and resigning from his post as grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem in Rome. In September […]
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By Katie Bahr
Feed the hungry. Instruct the uninformed. Visit the sick. Pray for the living and the dead. At Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Winchester, these and all the spiritual and corporal works of mercy are a permanent part of the church atmosphere. They are inscribed on the stained glass windows. More than that, though, the […]
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By David Dicerto
NEW YORK – Those familiar with the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus know that flying too close to the sun can be perilous. The story serves as a useful, cautionary allegory for our media-saturated age, in which young stars, elevated on wings of fame and fortune, often crash and burn, scorched by the […]
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By Thomas Craughwell
In the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “Health of the sick” is one of the many titles under which we invoke Our Lady. In 1992, inspired by this title, Pope John Paul II established the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes as the World Day of the Sick. The story of the apparition of […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
“An authentic Catholic culture.” It sounds pretty straightforward, but that’s what Father Robert J. DeMartino, pastor of St. William of York Parish in Stafford, is trying to create within his parish community. “Everything about St. William of York from the moment you get on the property should help us all move toward that final end […]
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By Katie Bahr
The mysteries of the rosary have come to life at Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville, thanks to the recent completion of 20 stained-glass windows depicting the glorious, joyful, sorrowful and luminous mysteries. An ongoing project since the new church’s dedication in 2008, the windows were commissioned by Dixon Studios, a Staunton-based business that has been […]
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By Judith Sudilovsky
JERUSALEM – Catholic Relief Services’ international staff and their families in Cairo were evacuated as pro-democracy demonstrations entered their seventh day. “Our current thinking is that we will be out for no more than two days,” CRS country representative Jason Berlanger said in a phone interview with Catholic News Service Jan. 31 as he was […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was a young mom with a preschooler and a new baby and another mother I’d met working at a small magazine called Welcome Home invited me to her house to watch her family in action. She was a Catholic woman, a few years older than me, whom […]
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By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY – Church leaders were watching the unfolding political drama in Egypt with a mixture of hope for reform and concern over potential violence, said the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Vatican Radio Jan. 30 that the widespread unrest that has weakened the 30-year rule of […]
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By Catholic News Service
Warning: Some of the content in this story is extremely graphic. PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia doctor who routinely performed illegal late-term abortions for more than 30 years was charged in the death of a female patient and accused of murdering seven babies born alive in his squalid health clinic. A grand jury indicted Kermit B. […]
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