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Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge met with alumni and friends from St. Thomas More High School in Philadelphia at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More. His father was a graduate of St. Thomas More High School. 

VATICAN CITY — Czech Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, who washed windows and ministered underground during communism, died of cancer March 18 in Prague at the age of 84. The retired archbishop of Prague was elected the first East European president of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences and dedicated his term to rebuilding the church and […]

A couple dozen people were waiting in the parking lot of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington March 20 at around 5 p.m. as the blue 33-foot RV pulled up. With the look of groupies awaiting their favorite band’s arrival, these Catholics were waiting to see Mary, specifically the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima  on tour around the diocese. 

The battle for Lent is being waged in our heads — that’s where most marathons are finished, or not. 

It is commonplace to say that America, along with other Western countries, is currently experiencing a cultural — which is to say: moral — crisis. And, in some quarters at least, it’s hardly less common to say this presents the church with both a challenge and an opportunity.

In July 1938, despite being pregnant, Emilia Fernandez Rodriguez was given a six-year jail sentence for trying to shield her husband, Juan Cortes, from recruitment by Republican paramilitaries after they occupied Tijola and closed its church.

An historical drama about an African prince (David Oyelowo) from the British protectorate of Bechuanaland (the future Botswana) who faced down mid-20th-century racial prejudice to marry a white office worker (Rosamund Pike) he met in post-World War II London.

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