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By Catholic News Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Seventy-seven years ago, inside the same building, Loyola University New Orleans won its first National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics men’s basketball national championship. Inside Municipal Auditorium in downtown Kansas City the night of March 22, the Jesuit-run Loyola Wolf Pack ended that drought by winning the championship, the first since the […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Our Lady of Fatima, having asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart as well as the communion of reparation on the five First Saturdays, told Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta July 13, 1917: “If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her […]
Local
Schools
By Special To The Catholic Herald
Superdance, the marathon 12-hour dance fundraiser to benefit cystic fibrosis research, returned to Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington this year after the event was canceled due to COVID-19
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Here is the Vatican text of the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, sent by the Vatican to bishops throughout the world. Pope Francis has invited bishops and the rest of the world to join him when he recites the prayer March 25 in St. Peter’s Basilica. Act of […]
Local
By Leslie Miller
Discovering your vocation is a great adventure that could be compared to a road trip with friends, speakers told about 1,300 eighth graders from Catholic schools all over the diocese at the annual Mass for Vocations March 24 at All Saints Catholic Church in Manassas. Students were encouraged to ponder and pray about what future […]
Local
Schools
By Special To The Catholic Herald
The varsity cheerleading team from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria won the grand championship title at the Christian Cheerleaders of America competition March 6 in Fayetteville, N.C.
Arts
By Catholic Herald
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Local
By Kevin Schweers
Prayers for peace in Ukraine poured forth from weekend Masses across Virginia, but for approximately 100 Catholics in a Front Royal church March 20, the petitions were especially personal and fervent. At Sts. Joachim and Anna Ukrainian Catholic Church, you may be a pew away from someone who was born in Ukraine, worked there or can trace their lineage to those resisting Russian bombings and aggression today.
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — As Russian bombardments continue to decimate Ukraine, Pope Francis prayed that God would free the world from war and the need to self-destruct. “May the Lord send us his Spirit so that we may understand that war is a defeat for humanity, that those who make war have a need for defeat […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Handing on the faith from generation to generation requires listening personally and directly to older people’s lived experiences and stories of faith, Pope Francis said. “Today the catechism of Christian initiation generously draws on the Word of God and conveys accurate information on dogmas, the morals of the faith and the sacraments,” […]
