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The annual St. Thomas Aquinas Mass was celebrated recently at Catholic University in Washington by Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education. Dominican Fathers John Langlois and Thomas Petri, both of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – The pope is human. Pope Francis demonstrated that in Mexico, as he does wherever he goes, and most people find it attractive most of the time. In Pope Francis, Catholics can see a real person trying to live his faith in a complicated world. Sometimes he waves at them and they can […]
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By Katie Scott
For many early risers, coffee is a necessary burst of caffeine sipped out of a travel mug en route to work or while checking the day’s first emails. Not for Daniel Velasquez, who grew up a parishioner of St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax and now attends St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. When he […]
National
By Zoey Dimauro
On the cold, cloudy day of Feb. 19, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was honored by the American people he served. As his coffin lay in the Great Hall of the United States Supreme Court, draped with a flag and guarded by four former law clerks, tens of thousands of people stood outside. They waited […]
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By Special To The Catholic Herald
Performing artist Nancy Scimone will present her one-woman drama “St. Faustina – Messenger of Mercy,” March 3 at Holy Spirit Church in Annandale, and March 13 at Holy Family Church in Dale City. The play is based on excerpts from the saint’s diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul. Scimone has staged more than 100 performances […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia Feb. 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public service of one of the most important Catholic figures in America over the past half-century. Justice Scalia was regarded, by admirers and detractors alike, as the most consequential jurist of his […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Wealth and power are meant to serve the poor and the well-being of everyone, not to selfishly exploit others, Pope Francis said. When power loses that sense of service, it “turns into arrogance and becomes control and subjugation,” he said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Feb. 24. But […]
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By Dave Borowski
In December, students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington watched their four-cubic-inch satellite, a CubeSat dubbed STMSat-1, weighing less than three pounds and packed with a payload of scientific experiments, launched to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). In March, the ISS will deploy the CubeSat into orbit to conduct experiments that […]
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Father Paul Scalia, a priest of the Arlington Diocese, was a guest on Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s radio show, “Conversation with Cardinal Dolan,” Feb. 23. The two discussed Father Scalia’s late father, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the homily at the funeral Mass and the family’s Catholic faith. Click the play button below to listen to […]
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By Dave Borowski
Vatican II’s “Gaudium et Spes,” “The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,” was a document promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965 that pushed the church to speak to the world on matters such as social justice and peace. A phrase in that document, “Peace is not merely the absence of war,” […]
