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By Zoey Dimauro
Each year on Good Friday, all Christian faiths mourn the death of Christ, but at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, members of four distinct Christian denominations – Catholic, Baptist, Methodist and Lutheran – meet to meditate on the crucifixion of Christ together. “We’re gathered from our own faiths, but (once there) we […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
It was the end of the day at St. Bernadette School in Springfield, and most students were flooding out the doors. But not everyone was so eager to leave. A group of second- and third-grade girls clamored up the steps to a top floor classroom for Virtue Club, a program that teaches about virtues in […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Entering in silence and lying prostrate on the floor in front of the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis commemorated Jesus’ death on the cross. Thousands of people joined the pope as he presided over the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion March 25. The solemn liturgy proceeded with the notable […]
Art
By Nora Hamerman
Carlo Crivelli, an artist of the Italian Renaissance who worked on the eastern coast of the peninsula in the late 15th and early 16th century, had his own insightful ways of depicting familiar scenes from the Gospel. Two of his interpretations stand out in the exhibit currently on view at the Walters Art Museum in […]
National
By Catholic News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network and turned it into one of the world’s largest religious media operations, died March 27 at age 92. Feisty and outspoken, she was a major controversial figure in the U.S. church in the closing decades of the 20th century. At the same time, […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appealed to the government of Pakistan to take steps to ensure the safety of the country’s Christians and other minorities the day after a terrorist bombing killed at least 70 people and injured more than 300 who were spending Easter afternoon in a public park. In Lahore, Pakistan, the pope […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden and Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God’s mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world). The risen Jesus “makes us sharers of his immortal life and enables us […]
National
By Catholic News Service
PHOENIX – Baseball legend and popular sports broadcaster Joe Garagiola, who died March 23 at age 90, recounted in a Catholic News Service interview 20 years ago how St. Peter Mission School in the Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix claimed his heart. A few years earlier, he said, when he stepped into “the […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
When her husband unexpectedly died of a stroke, Jane White turned to her parish bereavement group for support. “It helped me a lot to go that first time, to cry openly and have people understand why I was crying,” she said. The bereavement group, from St. Timothy Church in Chantilly, meditated on the seven sorrows […]
Local
By For The Catholic Herald
Over the course of the 2016 session, the Virginia General Assembly considered more than 2,100 bills and passed a $105 billion budget in 59 days. Throughout the session, the Virginia Catholic Conference met with legislators, testified at countless hearings and spread updates and alerts on social media. The VCC joined Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde […]
