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Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria hosted its annual “Homeless for a Night Campout” on the church grounds Nov. 23. Despite rain, more than 50 participants joined the campout to raise awareness for homelessness, building shelters out of cardboard and sleeping on the ground.
CFH, Inc., a 40-year-old Northern Virginia affordable housing nonprofit formerly called Catholics for Housing, has named George Davies its new executive director. Davies will take over for the current executive director, Karen DeVito, when she retires at the end of this year.
Journeying to Rome to meet with Pope Francis and pray at the tombs of the apostles is an occasion for grace, growth and renewal, said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo and named Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany as Buffalo's apostolic administrator.
Many people are filled with joyful anticipation and festive good cheer right now. But some are apprehensive and may also experience heightened feelings of loneliness as Christmas approaches. Or perhaps they feel empty inside.
The March for Life, the annual rally in Washington to protest legalized abortion in the United States, is tying itself in 2020 to the women's suffrage movement for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria said Vatican officials have told him that the upcoming beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has been postponed.
A local teenager has written music that has been officially approved for use in the Catholic Mass. Matthew Brown, 15, a parishioner at St. Mark Church in Vienna, has played piano for Masses at the church since he was in sixth grade.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde joined the bishops of Region 4 in making their ad limina visit to the Vatican Dec. 2-6.
Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde will accompany Bishop Michael F. Burbidge on the ad limina visit. For Bishop Loverde, this will be his sixth ad limina and first as a retired bishop.
