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Divine Mercy University in Sterling, a Catholic graduate school of counseling and psychology, celebrated the blessing of its new St. Dymphna Chapel Sept. 21.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who has called for the liberation of Aung San Suu Kyi, the former leader of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, told Jesuits in Asia that he even had offered to give her refuge at the Vatican.
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — With many of the concrete, hot-button issues removed from the agenda and turned over to study groups, some people wonder what members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will be doing when they meet at the Vatican in October.
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Christians must acknowledge the reality of the devil acting around them and remain steadfast in resisting his temptations, Pope Francis said.
Schools
The U.S. Department of Education has named St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic School in Clifton a National Blue Ribbon Award winner, the only Catholic school in the diocese to garner the honor this year.
Bishop Burbidge
“Jesus, truly present in the Eucharist, gives us the fullness of life,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge in his statement inviting Catholics to commemorate Respect Life Month with “a revival of prayer and action.”
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met with the bishops of Mozambique Sept. 24, a day after he had canceled his scheduled audiences because of "a mild flu-like condition."
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Arthur Brooks is a Catholic professor who considers Harvard University his mission territory. But the bestselling author and Atlantic columnist doesn’t teach a class on religion. His specialty is the science of happiness. Catholics have the secret to everlasting happiness, he said, but they don’t always know how to effectively share it with the secular world.
Local
By Jim Hale
On a day befitting 100 years of Catholic faithfulness, the vast parish community of St. Rita Church in Alexandria turned out in large numbers for its Centennial Celebration Sept. 22. Beginning as a mission of St. Mary’s Church in Alexandria in 1914 before becoming a parish in 1924, St. Rita soon became a bedrock of […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis makes his first papal visit to Luxembourg and Belgium at the end of September to encourage the church in the two traditionally Catholic countries in the heart of Europe to be beacons of hope and dedicated to serving the common good.
