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By Anna Harvey
Since high school, Father Edouard B. Guilloux, parochial vicar of St. John the Apostle Church in Leesburg, has fostered a love for cycling. Today, he uses his athletic talents to support and raise awareness for Biking for Babies. “Our pro-life efforts cannot simply be a ‘no’ to abortion, but also an enthusiastic ‘yes’ to life […]
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By Ann M. Augherton
World Youth Day pilgrims around the globe are making final preparations for their trip to Lisbon, Portugal, for the gathering of teens and young adults. Among the more than half-million registrants are 131 pilgrims from the Arlington diocese and Pope Francis himself, who with the help of two Portuguese college students, registered for the Aug. […]
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The Catholic Herald asked Eric J. Jenislawski, an associate professor of theology at Christendom College in Front Royal, to reflect on ethical considerations about the rise of artificial intelligence. What’s important to know about new artificial intelligence developments? First, it’s important to demystify the powers of large language model artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, because […]
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By Kevin Schweers
The national reckoning over artificial intelligence has sparked conversations around the Arlington diocese on how Catholics should approach the technology — and, for some, renewed concerns that people already have ceded too much to screens and other devices. For Rodney LaLonde, a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Arlington, the subject is more […]
National
By Daniel Payne
Americans are increasingly rejecting the idea of God along with other religious and spiritual concepts, continuing a decades-long trend that shows an ongoing decline in belief in key religious tenets. A July poll from Gallup shows a marked decrease in belief in “God, angels, heaven, hell, and the devil” among U.S. adults since the last […]
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Father Richard E. Dyer was installed as pastor of St. Thomas à Becket Church in Reston July 23 in a Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge.
Columns
By Lucia Silecchia
Late July brings one of my favorite celebrations in the church year: the July 26th memorial of Sts. Ann and Joachim, the parents of Mary, the Mother of God. I had some early biases toward this feast. I grew up in a New York parish named for St. Ann. My parents gave me that moniker […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Young people today must be open to love and let themselves be led and accompanied by God in the face of life’s challenges, Pope Francis said. In the second edition of the “Popecast,” produced by Vatican Media in Italian and released July 25, the pope responded to the stories of young people […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The Gospel calls Christians to bring the elderly to the center of their lives and away from the margins of families, politics and financial markets that banish them as “unprofitable waste” in society, Pope Francis said. “Let it not happen that by pursuing the myths of efficiency and performance at full speed […]
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