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A parish hopes to bring healing to those most wounded by the clergy sex abuse crisis.
In the lead-up to New Year’s, I was working on what I saw as a pretty impressive list. And it was getting more grandiose the more I thought that this should be a list worthy of a new decade. Then it was all turned upside down by a certain Cistercian monk at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Father James Orthmann.
At least one person has died and one Catholic Church was destroyed by the latest of a series of earthquakes to rock Puerto Rico.
Saying that "there is no end in sight to the horror which confronts us," Archbishop Mark Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said the bishops have implemented a national response to months of wildfires.
No matter where we originate, we are all part of the same human family. Christ calls us to live in solidarity with one another, setting aside our fears or apathy. Within our parishes, neighborhoods and this Diocese, we should seek to encounter all migrants as children of our loving God, serving them in love and compassion. Through this ministry and outreach, may we grow closer to Our Lord and invite others to share in the journey.
Arlington seminarians took on the Quo Vadis team — young men discerning the priesthood — at the annual basketball game highlighting vocations. The Quo Vadis team won for the third straight year with a final score of 43-38. The game was played at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores Jan. 4, with Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Father Christopher T. Vaccaro serving as referees.
Proceeds of the annual festival will fund a new church building.
Pope Francis led pilgrims in prayers for peace as tensions between the United States and Iran escalated following the assassination of a top Iranian general.
Worshipping the Lord as the Three Kings did involves making a journey "from the greatest form of bondage: slavery to oneself," Pope Francis said on the feast of the Epiphany.
Speaking during the Epiphany Mass in Baghdad Jan. 6, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako said the current crisis resulted from the "upsetting escalation, as well as the emotional and impulsive decisions taken which lacked wisdom and the sense of responsibility."
