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After all, for nearly an entire week, I had been lecturing them at the dinner table about the lessons I was picking up from Cal Newport’s recently released book, “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World.” I stretched the limits of their patience evening after evening by relating to them the stories of the Silicon Valley insiders who confided to Newport about the “digital attention economy’s” manipulative practices and “race to the bottom of the brainstem.”
To better protect minors and vulnerable adults from all forms of abuse and exploitation, Pope Francis approved a new law and a set of safeguarding guidelines for Vatican City State and the Roman Curia.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Mass in the Sacred Heart of Mary Chapel on the campus of Marymount University in Arlington to kick off inauguration events for Irma Becerra March 28. Becerra was installed formally as the university’s seventh president in a ceremony following Mass.
The new film “Unplanned,” based on a book of the same name, portrays Abby Johnson as someone who always wanted to help women and found that place with Planned Parenthood. She begins as a clinic volunteer and finds a career in counseling women on their choices, ultimately being involved in nearly 22,000 abortions. But one abortion she witnessed changed her life.
A 23-23 tie vote in the Maryland Senate March 27 led to a defeat for a bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide.
The clergy abuse crisis will not be over in our lifetime, particularly in countries where it is just being acknowledged, according to Jesuit Father Hans Zollner.
Pope Francis presented the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross to an elderly Italian missionary sister who dedicated her life to caring for mothers as a midwife in Congo, delivering more than 3,000 babies.
The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis will visit the eastern African nation of Mozambique and the island nations of Madagascar and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean Sept. 4-10.
The value of Anointing of the Sick transcends the simple expectation of physical recovery, according to James Starke, diocesan director of Divine Worship.
Recently, Pope Francis signed a document with Muslim leaders about there being one world religion. How can that be? Some of my non-Catholic friends are accusing the pope of being out of line. What really happened? (Batesville, Ark.)
