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I have a ritual I love. In the octave of Christmas, when the rush settles into cozy contentment and time unfolds a little more slowly, I sit with an extraordinary spiral-bound goal planner that might double as a life coach and I put words to my hopes for the coming year.
Seminarians took on the Quo Vadis team of young men discerning the priesthood, in the annual Hoops Challenge held Jan. 5 at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries. In the second match of the day, the seminarians took on the Earthen Vessels, a team comprised of diocesan priests.
Opus Dei, a well-known international Catholic organization, paid $977,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim in 2005 against a one-time high-profile priest in the nation's capital.
The budget bill passed by the House of Representatives to try to end the partial government shutdown includes a provision to repeal the "Mexico City Policy" that prohibits U.S. funding of foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortion.
As U.S. bishops gathered in early January at a seminary in Illinois to pray and reflect about the American church's sex abuse crisis, reports trickled out about the possible fate of one their own being decided overseas.
For Thomas Rillo, it was the moment his wife could not remember how to use the computer.
Jesuit Father Charles Currie, a social justice advocate and longtime leader in Jesuit college education, died Jan. 4 after a recent illness. He was 88.
A Labrador named Wrangler is the first full-time facility dog at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Southwest Portland, and his task is to offer comfort to patients in the children's emergency room.
As they have for the past 46 years, members of the Diocese of Arlington are preparing for the annual March for Life, a peaceful protest through the nation’s capital in remembrance of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. This year’s theme, “Unique from Day One,” recognizes that at the moment of conception, a new life with its own DNA is created.
Pope Francis has sent condolences and a blessing to the Hong Kong Diocese following the Jan. 3 death of Bishop Yeung Ming-cheung, 73, of liver failure.
