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By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – One day after Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, spoke at Georgetown University, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl celebrated a University Mass for Life for college students at a nearby Catholic church, encouraging them to stand up for God’s gift of human life. A Georgetown student group’s invitation to Richards, the head of the […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
India covers more than 1 million square miles and has a population of 1.2 billion people. It’s a big country. It’s also the birthplace of many religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. According to the Census Bureau of India, the country has a Hindu population of about 80 percent, followed by Muslims with 14 […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Happiness “is not an ‘app’ that you can download on your phones nor will the latest update help you become free and great in loving,” Pope Francis told thousands of teenagers. Youth from around the world flocked to Rome for a special Year of Mercy event for teens aged 13-16. The celebrations […]
National
By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – A canonical inquiry into the life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, will begin soon and extend to the end of the year, according to the Archdiocese of New York, which is sponsoring her sainthood cause and is where Day oversaw Catholic Worker houses. The Dorothy Day Guild, established […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
ROME – The same day Pope Francis brought 12 Syrian refugees to Rome from Greece, a merchant ship rescued 41 refugees, including a 3-year-old child. They told human rights workers they saw as many as 500 others drown when the refugees’ boat sank. The U.N. Refugee Agency reported April 20 that its personnel interviewed the […]
Global
By Paul Jeffrey
IRBIL, Iraq – When the Islamic State group rolled across Iraq’s Ninevah Plain in 2014, tens of thousands of Christians fled for their lives to Kurdish-controlled areas of the country. They still wait in limbo in crowded camps, facing an undefined future. The only certainty they enjoy is knowing that whatever happens to them, a […]
National
By Kurt Jensen
WASHINGTON – The controversy over the appearance by the head of Planned Parenthood at Jesuit-run Georgetown University April 20 became the background to a standing ovation. Cecile Richards was greeted warmly by more than 400 students, most of them women, at Lohrfink Auditorium. In her introduction, Helen Brosnan, a senior and president of the Georgetown […]
Local
The Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian pilgrimage will be held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, May 7, from noon to 4 p.m. The annual pilgrimage is sponsored by the Asian and Pacific Catholic Network in collaboration with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ […]
Schools
Seventh- and eighth-graders from 31 schools and a home-school association participated in the annual Arlington diocesan science fair at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax April 16. Trophies were awarded to the top three schools: first place, Nativity School in Burke; second place, St. Patrick School in Fredericksburg; and third place, St. Bernadette School […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
A few years back, Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde gave a speech to the Catholic Business Network of Northern Virginia that inspired Lucia Jason to make a change. “He stood here and said, ‘God gave you all gifts. Focus in on what your gift is, and use it to the benefit of others,'” she said. […]
