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Less than two weeks after pro-life leaders welcomed President Donald Trump to the speakers' platform at the Jan. 24 March for Life on the National Mall, these leaders were praising a call he issued in his State of the Union address Feb. 4 that Congress immediately ban late-term abortion.
When 50 junior and senior girls from Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores spend four days traveling together, friendships form and memories are made. Over the years, Dominican Sister Ann Dominica Mahowald has witnessed the impact a trip to the motherhouse of the Nashville Dominicans can have on travelers. Sister Ann Dominic enjoys a unique perspective on the school's trips; she has participated since the first.
BALTIMORE — Vatican officials are moving ahead with the cause for sainthood for a href="https://www.archbalt.org/mother-mary-elizabeth-lange/" title="Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange">Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange/a>, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori announced recently.
These cold mid-winter days are an excellent time to focus on home and the many systems that make life possible: personal finances, home improvement, decluttering, deep cleaning, meal planning, exercise, new activities and schedules. In other words, now is a good time to focus on your “household economy,” learning to use our gifts to care for one another’s basic needs.
Religious leaders (from left) Fr. Donald J. Rooney, pastor of St. Bernadette Church in Springfield; retired Bishop David Jones of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; Bishop Michael F. Burbidge; Bishop Leila Ortiz of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; and (not pictured) Tura Foster-Gillespie, president of the United Methodist Association of Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers lead a prayer service for Christian unity at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield last month.
As deaths continue to rise from the coronavirus epidemic, China faces a severe shortage of medical supplies, according to the only Catholic charity in the communist nation.
For Brother Michael O’Neill McGrath, painting is prayer. For years, the artist and author, known as “Brother Mickey,” has been sharing his images of saints and their famous sayings in books and retreats, as well as on prayerful greeting cards illuminated with brightly colored birds and flowers.
During February, my thoughts turn to two of my favorite biblical figures, Simeon and Anna.
Simeon is described in St. Luke’s Gospel simply as “a man in Jerusalem” and Anna as an 84-year-old “prophetess.” These two elders greet Mary and Joseph as they bring their newborn infant to the Temple in Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. We celebrate this moment in Jesus’ life, referred to as the Presentation in the Temple, Feb. 2.
VATICAN CITY — When one is totally in love with the Lord, then poverty, chastity and obedience are not sacrifices, but vehicles of freedom, Pope Francis told consecrated men and women.
Celebrating the World Day for Consecrated Life, Pope Francis urged women and men religious to be people of hope, and he asked all Catholics to pray for the hundreds of thousands of women and men who continue to consecrate their lives totally to serving God and their brothers and sisters.
An Alexandria couple continues the family tradition of a Christmastime wedding.
