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By For The Catholic Herald
Father Luke Willenberg, Second Battalion Chaplain of the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division’s 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, now holds the record for the fastest 12-mile foot march by any soldier ever to graduate from the U.S. Army’s elite DeClopper Air Assault School in Fort Bragg, N.C. Father Willenberg broke the previous record last month by […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Hundreds of years ago, the lush green island of Ireland was controlled by the British crown, which suppressed the Catholic faith brought by St. Patrick centuries before. To keep their culture alive, the Irish people formed secret societies for the protection of the priests they needed to carry on the faith. When the potato famine […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its first abortion case in nine years March 2 in a challenge by Texas abortion clinics to a 2013 state law that requires them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers and their doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The almost 90 […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Generally uplifting fact-based drama in which a working-class English lad (Taron Egerton) aspires to become an Olympic athlete. The barriers standing in his way include a childhood disability, a near-total lack of natural talent, the dyed-in-the-wool snobbery of the British sports establishment and the firm opposition of his practical-minded father (Keith Allen). Yet, with the […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
“We cannot depart here unchanged,” said Father Paul D. Scalia in the funeral homily for his father, Justice Antonin Scalia. Indeed, as I listened to a son reflect on his dad and glimpsed the justice’s nine children and 36 grandchildren at the funeral, something about Justice Scalia’s fatherhood confronted me. “I have found his death […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – As a mid-March deadline approaches for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make a decision on whether to make a declaration of genocide in the Middle East, the Knights of Columbus, based in New Haven, Conn., and the Washington-based group In Defense of Christians have mounted a petition campaign asking Kerry to […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Ranger Guide Kelly Dobson recently instructed boys in his Rangers group at St. Veronica Church in Chantilly how to dispose of blessed palms as part of a service project. The ashes from the palms will be used next year during St. Veronica’s Ash Wednesday Mass. The Rangers respectfully placed folded palms in the fire Monday […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In the second of his “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation center. To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort at the San Carlo Community Feb. 26 with just […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Olympic track and field legend Jesse Owens (Stephan James) is the focus of this entertaining film, chronicling Owens’ journey to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, where he won four gold medals and, as an African American, single-handedly dealt a devastating blow to Nazism and its belief in Aryan supremacy. Owens is discovered by his […]
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Parishioners at St. Katharine Drexel Mission celebrated their patron saint’s feast day Feb. 28.
