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Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective, January 1, 2020.
Washington authorities apprehended a suspect in an incident involving an attack Dec. 10 against two security guards at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the largest Marian shrine in the United States, at the height of its busiest season.
A reader shares how a dedicated altar server inspires him.
Supporters of the canonization cause for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen have been invited to take part in a novena starting Dec. 12 to "petition God unceasingly to remove all obstacles" for the beatification of the media pioneer, author and evangelist.
I had just begun my initiation to religious life when a very kind Little Sister offered to share with me the secret to joy. JOY, she confided, is a matter of putting Jesus first, Others second and Yourself last.
How is your supply of Christmas cheer doing these days? Mine is in rather short supply.
The sweetness of Rudolph’s redemption is spooned out so liberally it reveals May’s lingering boyhood wounds.
The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal executions in 16 years.
Christian Brother James Miller taught students and served as a vice principal at the La Sallian Christian Brothers school in this impoverished pocket of rural Guatemala.
Hope in God
When John the Baptist preached by the Jordan river, he proclaimed with boundless confidence that Jesus was the promised Messiah of Israel. Crowds came streaming from Jerusalem to hear him speak. In those days, it must have seemed like the kingdom of God would appear on earth at any moment. But things did not turn out as everyone imagined. John was now in prison for telling King Herod that he was wrong to divorce his wife and marry another. John the Baptist had once proclaimed that the Messiah would depose worldly tyrants. Now, John is a prisoner of the very sort of tyrant the Messiah should have deposed, and this fact nearly strains John’s faith to the breaking point.