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By Elizabeth Foss
Recently, I have reflected on how all our relationships are broken relationships. This looks a bit dismal at first, but once we acknowledge it — and recognize the gift that friendship with Christ is — it’s a most liberating reality. Every human relationship will disappoint if we expect it to be perfectly whole. It’s doomed […]
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By Russell Shaw
The challenge of finding language in which believers and non-believers can communicate is unintentionally illustrated in a bestselling new book which predicts that human beings will soon reinvent themselves as gods. The book, Homo Deus (Man God), is the work of Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian who achieved fame several years ago with […]
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By Soren Johnson
Before every mission, soldiers join the members of their unit and their leaders to review their mission and the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) they’ll use to accomplish the mission. Virtually everybody knows the TTP, but that doesn’t matter, because today is a new day. The unit walks through the scenarios they may encounter and […]
Local
By Ashleigh Kassock
Bishop Ireton High School students pray the rosary outside of an abortion clinic with Bishop Burbidge during 40 Days for Life campaign
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Before it became a stop on the Orange Line and the center of Arlington’s vibrant nightlife, Clarendon was known as Little Saigon. In the years following the Vietnam War, thousands of Vietnamese refugees settled in the Washington metropolitan area.
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Addressing the challenges of evangelization in one of the world’s most remote areas and the connection between faith and environmental concern, Pope Francis announced a special gathering of the Synod of Bishops to focus on the Amazon region. “Accepting the wish of several episcopal conferences of Latin America as well as […]
Global
By Robert Duncan
MOSCOW — A few blocks from Moscow’s Lubyanka Building, which for decades served as the headquarters of the Soviet Union’s KGB security agency, the Russian Orthodox patriarch recently consecrated a church memorializing those martyred during communism’s reign. “While we were in procession around the church, people were standing with portraits of those martyred and […]
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By Special To The Catholic Herald
The newly-formed Refugee Support Ministry at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Arlington began as a conversation over the summer about how to respond to refugee resettlement issues, said parishioner Anne Murphy. “The timing was perfect given Pope Francis’ new initiative focusing on refugees and immigrants,” she said. Now an ongoing effort, the […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, to be his special envoy at the Dec. 8 dedication of the Trinity Dome at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl […]
Dual citizenship
The question presented to Jesus about paying taxes to Caesar was not an invite to a leisurely discussion on a summer afternoon. Instead, the issue of taxation was a very fierce and divisive issue. The fact that present were rival groups such as the Pharisees, who opposed the payment of taxes to the occupying power of Rome, and the Herodians, who supported Roman taxation, shows that this was a question designed by both sides to ambush Jesus.