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During the month of October, we join with dioceses across the country to mark Respect Life Month. We take as our theme this year “Christ Our Hope in Every Season of Life.” Our focus on hope is greatly needed in a world suffering the harmful consequences of a “throwaway culture.”
Promoting religious freedom, providing humanitarian assistance and fighting human trafficking are three major issues the Vatican and the U.S. administration agree on and on which they will continue to coordinate efforts, panelists said at a joint symposium.
Charles Camosy is a most unusual pro-life optimist. Make that a Catholic pro-life optimist.
By virtue of their baptism, all Catholics are called to be missionaries, sharing the good news of salvation in Jesus by their actions and their words, Pope Francis said.
St. Therese of Lisieux, whose feast day is Oct. 1, is a Doctor of the Church and the patron saint of missionaries, which is fitting with October being named Extraordinary Missionary Month by Pope Francis.Thanks to St. Clare of Assisi Church in Clifton parishioner Linda Ann Dickey, visitors to the church had the opportunity to venerate a first-class relic of St. Therese on her feast day.
Pope Francis named Archbishop Bernardito Auza, who has represented the Vatican at the United Nations since 2014, to be nuncio to Spain and Andorra.
Three new dioceses have been carved out of the Archdiocese of Mexico, a move Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City said will bring pastors "closer to all the inhabitants."
Father Joseph M. Rampino and Youth Apostle Father Thomas M. Yehl traded places this summer — Father Rampino left his role as parochial vicar at Blessed Sacrament Church in Alexandria to become chaplain at Marymount University in Arlington. Father Yehl, former chaplain and director of campus ministry at Marymount, is now parochial vicar at Blessed Sacrament.
Opening the Extraordinary Missionary Month at a prayer vigil in St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 1, the pope said God "is asking you not simply to go through life, but to give life; not to complain about life, but to share in the tears of all who suffer."
While the Office of Youth, Campus, and Young Adult Ministries puts on several big events each year — the high school youth RALLY, WorkCamp, Life is Very Good — Director Kevin Bohli said they are trying to do much more.
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