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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Holy Spirit continues to give Christians different gifts and to call them to share those gifts with each other in a community marked by forgiveness and “unity in diversity,” Pope Francis said on Pentecost. “In a way both creative and unexpected,” the pope said, the Holy Spirit “generates diversity, for […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as pictorially. The photo of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima’s Mt. Suribachi “means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years,” Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal said in 1945. The image of […]
Local
By For The Catholic Herald
The Christendom Crusaders rugby team won the NSCRO 7’s National Championship in Philadelphia in dramatic fashion June 4, defeating St. Mary’s College of Maryland in overtime 24-19. The victory brought the school its first-ever national championship, as the Crusaders wowed the crowd of over 15,000 attendees with their incredible come-from-behind win. The Crusaders earned […]
National
By Catholic News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bishop David R. Choby of Nashville died June 3 at St. Thomas West Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for injuries that he sustained in a fall at his home Feb. 7. He was 70. Visitation was set for June 8 at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, concluding with […]
Columns
By Greg Erlandson
What does persecution look like? In Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian film “Brazil,” there is a scene where diners at a restaurant casually continue eating their meals while a terrorist bomb explodes nearby, taking out another table of diners. The scene has often come back to me as I look at what our society increasingly […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — U.S. Catholics joined Pope Francis and the rest of the world in expressing sorrow for those killed and severely injured in the latest terrorist attacks in London June 3. “The vigil of Pentecost had barely begun when the world was burdened yet again, this time by the sinister attacks on innocent men […]
National
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, of Galveston-Houston, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued the following statement following last night’s terror attack which has left seven people dead and at least 48 injured. This is the third terrorist attack on British soil in as many months. “The Vigil of Pentecost had barely begun […]
Bishop Burbidge
Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge has released the following statement on the June 3 attacks in London: The horrific attacks in London and the ongoing violence throughout our world sadly remind us of the urgent need to pray daily and fervently for God’s peace in every land and nation. May the Lord grant eternal life […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Deacons Chris F. Tipton and Michael J. Folmar were ordained June 3.
Movies
Enjoyable adventure for the DC Comics superhero (Gal Gadot) takes her from her home environment — an island of Amazons isolated from the rest of the world — into the thick of World War I. Her involvement in the conflict follows the accidental intrusion of an American (Chris Pine) who's spying for the British into her native realm, an event she takes as a signal that her race is being called to bring peace to humanity.
