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By Rachel Beatrice
RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe March 29 vetoed pro-life legislation that would have cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood’s six Virginia health centers, which provide care to more than 22,000 men and women each year. McAuliffe rejected House Bill 1090, a measure supported by Republicans to prohibit the Virginia Department of Health from funding […]
National
By Tanya Connor and William T. Clew
WORCESTER, Massachusetts (CNS) – A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was “a martyr of the truth.” Father Mulumba Kambale Matsongani, the only Congolese Assumptionist now living in the Worcester Diocese, shared memories of Assumptionist Father Vincent Machozi, who taught him in […]
National
By Jill Kruse
DUBUQUE, Iowa – As Cari Campbell scrolled through the content of her Facebook newsfeed one day last August, the post of a friend living in Oregon caught her attention. Campbell could not have foreseen at the time how quickly that social media post would turn her world upside down or the way in which God […]
Local
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 […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
In 1871, two boys in the town of Pontmain, France, saw a vision of Mary. Their parents sent for the local teacher, who brought three schoolchildren with her. Only the youths could see the Blessed Virgin, dressed in a blue garment, covered with golden stars and carrying a red crucifix. As members of the town […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
