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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — With some prudence, Catholics can benefit spiritually from the messages and spiritual practices associated with the alleged apparitions of Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, said the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Recognizing the spiritual value of devotions connected to Medjugorje, but not ruling on the authenticity of the alleged apparitions or alleged messages from Mary, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith also noted that church officials have issued a "series of divergent opinions" about the phenomenon over the past four decades.
Local
By Lianna Youngman
Karla Paulina Martinez finds it difficult to believe that in five short years, God transformed her life from a deeply unhappy, liberal agnostic to a beaming graduate about to enter religious life.
Her journey, with all its unexpected moments of grace, was guided by a yearning for truth and a desire to find home.
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By Zachary Smith
“How can you attend college and not lose your faith?”
One look at the news is all it takes to see that this question only becomes more relevant with each passing day. According to a survey performed by Barna Research in 2018, roughly 70 percent of high school students who enter college as professing Christians will leave with little to no faith — a distressing statistic, and one that plagues faithful Catholic families across the country.
National
By Mariana Barillas
NASA researchers affiliated with The Catholic University of America in Washington are part of an international team that has proven the existence of a global energy field, which has eluded scientists for decades.
National
By Matt Palmer
The Catholic University of America biology professor Venigalla Rao looks at some of humanity’s great medical challenges — including cancer, HIV, and COVID-19 — with a determination to find answers through the university’s Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, which he founded three years ago.
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Freshmen outreach and Welcome Week are big parts of each year for the Catholic Campus Ministry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.
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The budding Catholic Campus Ministry at Shenandoah University fired up the grill and hosted lawn games, raffles and Sunday Mass to open the fall academic semester last month in Winchester.
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By Elizabeth Foss
The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with Jesus. Close behind that relationship is the one you have with yourself.
Both require stillness. Silence. Rest. You cannot hear our Lord over the din of an overly busy life, nor can you hear yourself think. We struggle to still ourselves, to quiet ourselves, to allow ourselves to rest. We are restless seeking something to appease the sense of not enough. And we are desperate to know ourselves better and to love the Lord well.
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More than 50 women religious from around the diocese gathered at the Benedictine Monastery in Bristow for the annual Convocation of Women Religious Sept. 7.
