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By Rhina Guidos
WASHINGTON – Georgetown University last year stripped from a building the name of one of its past presidents, a priest who authorized the sale of 272 women, children and men – slaves sold to save the university from financial ruin in 1838. In a historic change of fortune, current university President John J. DeGioia announced […]
National
By Rhina Guidos
WASHINGTON – A six-month search for a new president and CEO for one of the largest humanitarian relief agencies in the world ended at its doorstep, with Catholic Relief Services announcing Sept. 16 that it is hiring a veteran employee — the agency’s No. 2 — Sean Callahan, as its new president and CEO. “We […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Though generally renowned for Gregorian chant, curating libraries and offering quiet retreats, some Benedictine monks also brew beer, run farms or play electric guitar, like Abbot Primate Nokter Wolf. Ending his third and final term as leader of the confederation of Benedictine monasteries, the 76-year-old German monk also plays in a rock […]
National
WASHINGTON – Ads appearing around the country “calling for taxpayer funding of abortion in the name of the Catholic faith” are “deceptive,” “extreme” and promote “abortion as if it were a social good,” said New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan. The abortion advocacy organization Catholics for Choice placed full-page ads Sept. 12 in the print […]
Theater
By Stacy Rausch
The year is 1849, it is a dark and stormy night and you are taking a tour of an insane asylum where Edgar Allan Poe is a resident. As you tour the asylum, you will try to unlock the madness that has befallen Poe after the death of his beloved wife, Virginia. Through the 4th […]
Local
The Benedictine Sisters of Virginia in Bristow welcome a new postulant as a graduate of Christendom College in Front Royal takes her solemn vows with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Florence in Italy. The Benedictine Sisters accepted Kay Fitzgerald of Atlanta, as a postulant Labor Day weekend. Following a 1,500-year-old tradition, Fitzgerald knocked […]
Schools
By Kurt Jensen
Mary Clover Moran has worked with squirmy 5-year-olds at Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria for more than four decades. Moran, 79, has been married for 58 years to husband, Pat, raised seven children and has 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with one more on the way. She has taught religious education classes, mostly to […]
Schools
By Connor Bergeron
Catholic convert, Matt Fradd, breaks down the myths about pornography at Bishop O'Connell High School.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a brief outdoor ceremony, Pope Francis administered the sacrament of confirmation to 16-year-old Giuseppe Chiolo, who had come to the Vatican by ambulance from Florence. Chiolo, who is being treated in the oncology ward of a Florence hospital, had written to Pope Francis with a request to meet him. The teenager […]
Schools
By Special To The Catholic Herald
Christendom College in Front Royal publicly launched a comprehensive $40 million campaign Sept. 9, the most ambitious fundraising effort in its history. The initiative will help build the new Christ the King Chapel, double the endowment, and assist with the annual fund. The campaign, titled “A Call to Greatness,” was rolled out during a special […]
