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Recently, a group of students from Christendom College escaped Rome and their studies during a semester abroad for a weekend pilgrimage to Norcia, a small town in the Umbria region of Italy.
Here in Rome, Advent is a beautiful season. Storefronts are being decorated and ancient cobblestone streets are coming to life with lights and evergreens.
At first thought, St. Lucy, a third-century martyr, may not be what we think of as a “Christmas saint,” such as St. Nicholas.
Lately, the news has really weighed me down. It is heartbreaking to see the raging fires in California night after night and take in scenes of ravaged land, smoldering ruins and broken lives.
My 4-year-old granddaughter Charlotte is allowed to play with her family Christmas creche.
Deploring the commercialization, secularization and general thinning-out of the spiritual meaning of Christmas is part of the stock in trade of commentators on things religious of whom your humble servant is one. Nor should we fail to mention those annual church-state battles in the season of good will over whether Nativity scenes should or shouldn’t be allowed on public property.
Christmas tree sales prove lucrative fundraisers.
The Maryland province of the Society of Jesus Dec. 17 released the names of Jesuits who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors since 1950. They include Jesuits from the province and other Jesuits who have served the province.
Elide Pena, 55, grins when she talks about her favorite Christmas memory: the time when she fell under Santa's sleigh attempting to grab a toy for one of her grandchildren during a Christmas party in her native Venezuela.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge has placed Father Ronald S. Escalante, Pastor of Saint Francis de Sales Church, Purcellville, on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation of alleged boundary violations involving a minor and adults which transgress the i>Code of Conduct for Clergy in the Diocese of Arlington/i>.
