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Late night calls to crime scenes; homes where hospice patients have completed their journey; a job that goes beyond the regular 9 to 5 routine that requires compassion for both the living and the dead.While some might consider her career as a funeral director macabre, Antonia Cummings sees it as a calling.
The Getty Fire that began whipping through mountain communities west of Los Angeles during the early hours of Oct. 28 caused the closure of several local Catholic schools, the evacuation of students and staff at Mount St. Mary's University and a call for the retired sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet to shelter in place.
Kathleen Wilson walked up the front walk of a house at the end of Charles Street in Fredericksburg accompanied by her friend and realtor Kimberly Martelon. Mary’s Shelter, an organization that provides temporary housing and help for mothers and their children, got the go-ahead from their board to start searching for another house to buy and Wilson was determined to find one.
The Respect Life Committee at Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria hosts an event addressing domestic violence Oct. 28 during domestic violence awareness month.
Former Vice President Joe Biden attended the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony Church Oct. 27 and when he presented himself to receive the Eucharist was refused by the pastor.
When Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory was installed as the seventh archbishop of Washington May 21, he joined the local church in the nation's capital in preaching a message of healing and hope.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said the city's plan to create a safe drug injection site now that it has the legal go-ahead to do so "is simply the latest dose of despair offered by a confused and suffering culture."
A Mexican priest and migrant shelter operator suffered an extortion attempt and, later the same day, a violent robbery at his parish residence.
I grew up in a family of seven kids, which I considered a midsized Catholic brood. I knew families that could field entire baseball and even football teams.
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Gospel Commentary: The path we must take
This Gospel records the conversion of the tax collector Zacchaeus from a life of treacherous fraud to a life of humble and generous poverty with Christ.