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After a tragic loss, one family creates Tiny Saints

By Connor Bergeron
The Klinker family creates saints in the palm of your hand.
Columns

Pilgrims pack light

By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
Gospel Commentary Mt 5:13-16 A comparison between light and salt would find light winning as the more inviting image. It would be more flattering to hear that our words or actions brought light to a situation than to hear that we brought salt. Of course, to be called the “salt of the earth” is a […]
Columns

A patron saint for cloistered nuns

By Thomas J. Craughwell

Saints Scholastica and Benedict designed an orderly, sane, yet spiritually concentrated way of life for men and women seeking God. 

Columns

Being Catholic first

By Richard Doerflinger
This past presidential campaign, one of the most bruising and discouraging on record, left many of us dissatisfied with the electoral system and politics in general. As usual, Catholics voted for the winning candidate — despite internal divisions between churchgoers and nonchurchgoers and between white and Hispanic Catholics. And as usual, Catholics’ tendency to pick […]
Columnists

Helping leads to healing

By Christina Capecchi
Spend a day in a surgery waiting room and you’ll witness a hundred quiet acts of mercy. Strangers gather for a host of reasons with a common cause: to sit beneath the slowest clock and wait it out. They make calls, utter prayers and flip through magazines, and in their anxiety, they extend morsels of […]
Columnists

Dear Wormwood

By Soren Johnson
The following is inspired by C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, a fictionalized correspondence between two demons. My Dear Wormwood,  Your last letter delighted me to no end and only heightened my pride as your uncle. You reported that your patient is “busy” and “stressed,” “overwhelmed” with the demands of “balancing” his job, marriage, and young children.  […]
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Virginia takes legal action against Trump’s immigration order

By Mary Lee Clark and Tyler Hammel
RICHMOND – Attorney General Mark Herring, flanked by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, announced Jan. 31 that Virginia is taking legal action against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Herring called the order “unconstitutional and unlawful.” He said Virginia is already being hurt by the immigration ban. Herring said it affects […]
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Panel OKs bill to defund Planned Parenthood

By Megan Corsano and Amelia Heymann
RICHMOND — A bill seeking to defund Planned Parenthood cleared a House subcommittee Jan. 31on a 4-1 vote. HB 2264, introduced by Del. Ben Cline, R-Amherst, “would prohibit the Virginia Department of Health from granting funds or entering into contracts with certain health care providers that perform abortion.” More specifically, it would cut off Title […]

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