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Vatican statistics show more Catholics, decline in priests, women religious worldwide

By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to Vatican statistics.
Columnists

One wish

By Fr. Rich Miserendino
An age-old question: If you found a genie in a lamp in the desert and he granted you one wish (no wishing for more wishes, everyone knows that), what would you choose? In our Gospel for this Sunday, James and John have undoubtably realized that, by being in the presence of Jesus, they have something better than a thousand genies — God himself. So, naturally they set to wishing.
National

Ethel Kennedy’s life and legacy celebrated at Washington memorial service

By Mark Zimmermann
In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington during an Oct. 16 Celebration of Life for Ethel Skakel Kennedy, singer Stevie Wonder honored his friend by first singing the Our Father accompanied by a harpist, and then leading the congregation in a rousing version of “Isn’t She Lovely.”
Global

U.S. bishop: Church needs decentralization, not doctrinal fragmentation

By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church's governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on synodality, should not lead to a decentralization of doctrine, said the former chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine.
Parishes

St. Paul Chung Church

St. Paul Chung Church in Fairfax, created to serve the Korean population in the diocese, is one of the largest Korean Catholic parishes in the United States. After 10-plus years as a mission church, Bishop John R. Keating dedicated St. Paul Chung Church in Fairfax Feb. 1, 1996, and established it as the 61st parish in the Arlington diocese.
Local

Blessed Sacrament School celebrates 75 years of excellence and Catholic identity

By Jim Hale
It was 1949. Harry Truman had just been re-elected president, Pope Pius XII was in the second decade of his papacy, and Msgr. Martin T. Quinn, the first pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church, founded Blessed Sacrament School in Alexandria with the help of the Holy Cross Sisters.    With 263 students in grades K-8, Blessed Sacrament […]
Global

Vatican appoints youth advisers, including U.S. member

By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Selected from different regions and international Catholic movements active around the world, 20 young people will advise the Vatican on topics related to the pastoral care of young people as well as other issues.

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