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By Katie Scott
You hungrily scan the rows of plump bagels and cinnamon-and-sugar covered pastries at your favorite cafe, carefully selecting the perfect pairing for your midday coffee or post-Mass outing. But what happens to the bread-based items at the end of the day or after they’ve reached their sell-by date? Much of it likely goes from display […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked policy with more disastrous social consequences than the “one-child policy” China began to implement in the early 1980s – a state-decreed population-control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced […]
Local
By Katie Scott
Saving baked goods from the landfill, Bread for Our Brothers diverts items to the local needy.
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
The potential presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, a media critic when it suits his purposes, is a creature of the media. Trump has a knack for saying outrageous things, and journalists have heaped lavish free coverage on his outrageousness. The result: a candidate who has never held public office and has made the art of […]
Global
By David Agren
BACHAJON, Mexico – Deacon Anselmo Hernandez received a call on a recent Saturday afternoon while walking down the main street of this indigenous community of Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, advising him of a neighbor who had died that afternoon. Within an hour, he had blessed the casket, led the family in prayers and read with […]
Local
By Fr. John J. Dolan, Osfs
This Jubilee year invites us to be missionaries of mercy who flood the world with acts of mercy and love so as to counter the many other acts that are far from pleasing to God. Mercy is a call to act in accord with the tender love that Jesus showed when He was among us […]
Columns
By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
What a difference a week makes. Attentive listeners will recall that the beginning of this Gospel passage is the same as the ending in last Sunday’s. For people who pray liturgically, it might be true that the dramatic revelation Jesus shared last week has been of great benefit in their lives this week. In His […]
Schools
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Anyone who says Latin is a dead language has probably never met the Certamen team at St. Veronica School in Chantilly. The dedicated group of sixth-, seventh- and eighth- graders travel to competitions around the region where they participate in fast-paced rounds of questions and answers about Roman culture and the Latin language. Sometimes the […]
Schools
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama signed the sweeping bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act in December, he described it as a “Christmas miracle.” “This is an early Christmas present. After more than 10 years, members of Congress from both parties have come together to revise our national education law,” he said. The other part of […]
Global
By Dale Gavlak
AMMAN, Jordan – Catholic clergy lamented the destruction of Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah, and urged the international community to do more to stop such assaults. “I had the same emotional and perhaps spiritual experience as I did when I was standing over the bodies of fallen soldiers,” Father Jeffrey Whorton told Catholic News […]
