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High schoolers from across the diocese gathered for RALLY, an annual event for teens to learn about and celebrate Catholicism, at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington Oct. 20.
The Mexican bishops' conference called for calm and reflection after well-armed members of a drug cartel descended on the city of Culiacan and forced Mexican security forces to release the son of convicted cartel kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "El Chapo."
Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for oneself or one's clique of like-minded believers, Pope Francis said.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated the Mass in Thanksgiving for the Gift of Human Life at St. Raymond of Peñafort Church in Springfield Oct. 20. Mass was concelebrated by Father Thomas P. Ferguson, vicar general and pastor of Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria, and Father John C. De Celles, pastor of St. Raymond.
There is an old New Yorker cartoon that shows an angel bringing God a stack of petitions about wars, natural disasters and other calamities. God waves him off with a distracted, "Not now. I'm trying to help this guy make a free throw."
The National Council on Disability said in a new study that "the dangers and harms" physician-assisted suicide laws present to people with disabilities "appear to be as significant today" as they were in 1997 and 2005, when the council earlier analyzed the harms of such laws.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Sacred Heart Academy was recognized by the Virginia Division of Rehabilitative Services in Winchester with the “Champion Employer Award” as a result of hiring and supporting individuals with unique abilities.
A U.S. archbishop has called on the international community to renew a commitment to peace in the wake of Turkey's incursion into Syria.
The canon of Scripture refers to the list of books recognized as sacred, inspired and authoritative as God’s revelation.


