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By Priscila González de Doran
HYDES, Md. — Days after a tabernacle containing the Eucharist was stolen from a parish near Baltimore, parishioners received some good news when the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur donated one of their tabernacles to the grieving faith community. The replacement tabernacle arrived at St. John the Evangelist Church in Hydes a few hours […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Pope Francis blessed a special Easter basket during a private audience with Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly and his family at the Vatican April 11. The Easter basket was representative of the 10,000 Easter care packages assembled by Knights of Columbus in Poland in recent days, which were being distributed to displaced […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
At the end of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, April 14, parishes around the Arlington diocese removed the Eucharist from the tabernacle and placed it on an altar of repose. Many worshipped there until midnight, symbolically spending the evening waiting with Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. Others traveled to the […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff
With pandemic restrictions being lifted nationwide stations of the cross came back to several parishes in the diocese. St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls Church had live stations with 40 different actors, while the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington did stations around the church.
Local
By Leslie Miller
In times of isolation, loneliness and fear, we must reach out “and wash the feet of one another,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper April 14 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. The Holy Thursday evening Mass, which marks the start of the sacred Triduum, commemorates […]
Local
By Special To The Catholic Herald
Across the Arlington diocese, more than 160 adults will be welcomed into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil Masses April 16, the diocese said in a statement. The hourslong vigil Mass begins with the blessing and lighting of the Paschal candle symbolizing the light of Christ. Following Mass, the more than 160 initiates will have […]
Local
By Mary M. Shaffrey
For the first time in three years, priests, deacons and Catholics from throughout the diocese filled the Cathedral of St. Thomas More for the April 14 Chrism Mass, traditionally celebrated on Holy Thursday by the bishop.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Before washing the feet of 12 inmates, Pope Francis told them and other prisoners that God never tires of forgiving anyone who asks. When Jesus washed his disciples’ feet, including the feet of Judas, who would betray him, it was a sign that God will wait patiently for everyone and will forgive […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — For Lydia Korostelova, Russia’s brutal invasion of her native Ukraine has hit home in ways she could never have imagined. “People are leaving their homes, leaving everything behind,” she said of her hometown of Huliaipole in eastern Ukraine during an April 7 panel discussion at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — To wage war, which marks a failure of politics and humanity, is to surrender to the forces of evil, Pope Francis wrote in a new book. “War is not the solution, war is madness, war is a monster, war is a cancer that feeds off itself, engulfing everything!” he wrote. And, he […]
