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Marisa Harris, a resident of Olney, Md., was driving eastbound on I-66 in Fairfax County Oct. 28 when a 12-year-old boy jumped from the Cedar Lane overpass in a suicide attempt and landed on her Ford Escape. She died at the scene.
Thirty-nine years ago, Kay Hockman was reading a Catholic Digest article about a woman who had started a rosary group in her home. Hockman, a parishioner of All Saints Church in Manassas, was inspired by the story and felt called to start her own rosary group.
Nearly 600 young adults gathered for the Regional Congress of Young Adults Oct. 28 at Herndon Middle School in Herndon. Organized by the diocesan Spanish Apostolate with the support of the Young Adult Charismatic Renewal and other diocesan groups, the event included prayer, reflections, testimonies, music, lunch and a holy hour.
The acceptance of artificial contraception by some Christian churches and communities beginning in the 1930s has led "to the monstrosity of what is today known as procreative medicine," which includes abortion, said German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller.
At a panel at the 2017 In Defense of Christians Summit Oct. 25, Robert Nicholson, executive director of the Philos Project, said often when he is discussing the need to protect Christians in the Middle East, people will tell him that they care about Christians, but they don't know what the United States can do about it, since another invasion of Iraq is unlikely.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Oct. 25 that it is looking for ways to ensure that faith-based and religious groups are not blocked from receiving HHS funding for their programs.
