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Pro-life group promotes ‘Day of Tears’

By Dai Já Norman
RICHMOND — A pro-life organization called Day of Tears is urging the Virginia General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring a day of mourning to mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.   Joined by a dozen Republican colleagues, Delegates Benjamin Cline of Amherst and Richard Bell of Staunton introduced […]
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Lawmakers start tackling Virginia’s opioid crisis

By Ashley Luck
RICHMOND – Virginia officials are scrambling to get a grasp on the state’s growing opioid epidemic, legislators and health-care leaders said Jan. 12. William A. Hazel Jr., the commonwealth’s secretary of health and human resources, gave a presentation to the Senate Education and Health Committee and the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee about the […]
Columns

Walk in the Light

By Fr. Robert J. Wagner
Gospel Commentary Mt 4:12-23  We take the presence of light for granted in our lives because it is so accessible. When we want it, we flip a switch or push a button. We even have the problem of light pollution, where sometimes we need to pull down our shades to keep the light out, even […]
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The sick, our everyday heroes

By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
Over Christmas, two of my family members were talking about a mutual friend who, though chronically ill, routinely does heroic acts of kindness for others. Though they get exasperated with her when she overextends herself, they realize that caring for others is what makes life meaningful. I thanked God that these women are kind enough […]
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The fifth annual Nellie Gray Mass will be celebrated Jan. 27

By Elizabeth A. Elliott

The Paulus Institute will host the fifth annual Nellie Gray Mass in memory of Gray, the founder of the March for Life, which began in 1974, following the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision Jan. 22, 1973, that legalized abortion. Gray died in 2012. 

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Housing the pro-life movement

By Zoey Maraist

Diocesan churches play a vital role in providing the nation's pro-lifers a place to stay for the March for Life. 

Pope Francis

Tear down this wall: Ecumenical week focuses on overcoming division

By Cindy Wooden

The German reflections on the power of prayer to bring down walls and the Gospel call to reconciliation were adopted by the World Council of Church's Faith and Order Commission and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and proposed to Christians worldwide for the Jan. 18-25 octave of prayer.

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