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Under the bright lights of the University of Mary Washington's Intramural field Father Christopher T. Vaccaro, chaplain of the Catholic Campus Ministry, celebrated the second annual Mass Under the Lights with a group of more than 60 students, athletes and coaches April 12.
A London council has become the first local authority in the UK to approve a buffer zone around an abortion clinic.
p class="Body">In an attempt to increase visibility for an immigrant community increasingly under threat, Salvadoran prelates met with congressmen on the Hill as well as members of the Salvadoran community at three parishes in the Washington metropolitan area, including the Cathedral of St. Thomas More.
Bishops from El Salvador are joining bishops from the United States in the nation’s capital this week, in an effort to remind government officials of what will happen if over 200,000 Salvadorans lose their protected status under U.S. immigration law and are deported to their home country.
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration committee said April 11 he agrees with concerns raised issued by U.S. bishops on the southern border about President Donald Trump's call to deploy National Guard troops to the region.
p class="Body">Even before the time of Christ, Aristotle wrote beautifully on the subject of friendship. Many are familiar with a phrase of his composing, a friend is "a single soul in two bodies." Theological inaccuracies notwithstanding, it is an intriguing observation.
Most of the Virginia Catholic Conference’s top legislative priorities during this year’s 60-day Virginia General Assembly session were decided by lawmakers in committees — not by votes on the floors of the Senate or House.
When you say that you don’t have time to go to Mass, or you won’t go because don’t like the parish or the music bothers you, what you are saying is that you’d literally rather not receive Our Lord who offers his act of love to you personally than go to a Mass that doesn’t meet your ideal. Jesus wants you, but you’d rather leave him at the altar than to go under whatever circumstances he’s offering.
It’s true what they said about me
The “two disciples” who begin our passage today have just made their eager trek back into Jerusalem to recount the “goings on” of their trek out of Jerusalem on Emmaus Road (a good album name?). As we know (from the verses preceding today’s passage), Jesus joined them and spoke with them for a long part of their journey, all the while either preventing them from recognizing him or deciding not to interrupt their kilometers-long blindness — a blindness resistant to the heart-inflaming truths He expressed about himself in Scripture. Could there possibly be a better Scripture class than this one was?