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After a committee endorsed the proposal on a party-line vote, the House of Delegates is considering legislation to allow people to bring guns and knives into a place of worship in Virginia.

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Whether they know it or not, married couples today need lots of prayer to live their vocation well. They always have, but perhaps today they may need it more than ever. Three recently published books approach this need in rather different ways.

 The National Gallery of Art in Washington owns two of the best-preserved pictures by the Estonian artist Michel Sittow. One is the tiny “Assumption of the Virgin” set in a landscape evocative of Castile in Spain. The other is a portrait of the much-traveled diplomat Diego de Guevara. Both can be seen in a new light, as works of art and statements of faith, in an exhibit at the National Gallery marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of Estonia. 

The Catholic Church's care for the sick, especially through Catholic-run hospitals, is an antidote to "the business mentality that is seeking worldwide to turn health care into a profit-making enterprise," Pope Francis said.

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The norms for the United States, established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 1966 and reiterated in November 1973, may be summarized as follows:

 

Few things were more repugnant in Jesus’ day than leprosy. 

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