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By Natalie Askin
While math, science and other core subjects teach students the concepts they need to know in college and their careers, other classes prepare students who plan to strive for entirely new paths. At St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, students are offered an entrepreneurship class that teaches how to start and run businesses […]
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By Mark Holan
I drove to St. Patrick Church in Fredericksburg for Mass soon after Bishop Michael F. Burbidge dedicated the new building last June. It became the latest of similar pilgrimages I’ve made over the years to more than two dozen churches and other spots associated with Ireland’s patron saint.
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By Zoey Maraist
Hundreds of innocents have died in the war.
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By Ashleigh Kassock
Emilio Rodolfo Biosca sat in the office of the American embassy in Mexico waiting for his fate to be decided. It was 1964 and the Cuban native had made the more than 1,300-mile journey to Mexico with two false passports and his 2-year-old daughter with the hope that they could gain asylum in America. “The […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Focusing on the meaning and importance of the Eucharist “with the horrors of war before our eyes” does not distract one from reality, but provides a broader perspective for understanding it, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household. The Eucharist is “the presence in history of the event that overturned […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
LVIV, Ukraine — “I’ve come with the three most sophisticated Gospel weapons: prayer, fasting and alms,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski told reporters in Western Ukraine March 10 as he prepared to head toward Kyiv and other cities under Russian bombardment. At the behest of Pope Francis, Cardinal Krajewski, the papal almoner, arrived in Poland March 7 […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
The common refrain is that this Lent began in 2020; the last two years have been one long Lent. It’s easy to understand that train of thought. So much has happened since March 2020, and so much of it has been hard. Very little of the suffering has been of our choosing. No one sat […]
National
By Janet Jones
HIGH HILL, Texas — Just about every kind of person can be found in an airport — from vacationers heading for a little piece of heaven to business people whose schedules seems like hell on earth. The concourses are a limbo of sorts as people wait to get to their destinations. If any travelers are […]
Global
By Jonathan Luxmoore
WARSAW, Poland — A Catholic professor said Russia’s clergy fear arrest if they question the war against Ukraine and warned the church now faced a “new era of silence.” “Prayers for an immediate cease-fire are being said in parishes — but priests can no longer speak publicly,” said the lay Catholic, who asked not to […]
Bishop's Columns
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Throughout the Church’s history, the time leading up to the annual celebration of Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection has been marked with particular focus and attention preparing catechumens for the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist. The origins of Lent are complex and varied. In the ancient Church, the core of Lent arose […]
