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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I am having a hard time understanding why a Catholic church closed by a bishop can no longer be used for Masses, weddings and funerals. For more than 100 years, this particular church – built by my great-great-grandparents – was considered sacred ground. Now my grandson wants to get married in that beautiful little […]
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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
The five Visitation sisters were just looking for a quiet, shady spot to eat their Booeymonger sandwiches before the big canonization Mass Sept. 23 – not trying to start a media firestorm. But when they unwittingly pulled into a parking lot reserved for the press behind the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate […]
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By Kate Turgeon Watson
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Walker family filed through the side entrance of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh. A bag on her shoulder and a 3-year-old on her hip, mom Noel Zemborain smiled. A pack at his waist, dad Catire Walker held the door as their three older children passed by. At least 50 adults from […]
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By Christina Capecchi
I’m reading a book that speaks to me as a journalist, Brian Grazer’s 2015 release A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. In it, the 64-year-old Emmy-winning movie producer recounts his practice of conducting “curiosity conversations” twice a month for the past three decades to fill up his knowledge reserve and walk in […]
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By George Weigel
The XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family begins with Mass in St. Peter’s Oct. 4. No synod in modern Catholic history has drawn such worldwide press attention or generated such controversy within the church (with the possible exception of the special synod called by John Paul II to examine […]
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By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – The 11,000 ticketed guests and a cast of hundreds extra – military units, musicians and federal employees – who waited on the White House lawn to greet Pope Francis Sept. 23 were clearly there as fans of the visiting pope. As the sun rose over a spectacularly blue September sky, a cross-section of […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
St. Mark School in Vienna and Our Lady of Hope School in Potomac Falls were selected as Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. The announcement was made Sept. 29. Fifty private schools were honored. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools that are […]
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By Russell Shaw
Let’s begin by recognizing that the case of the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because same-sex marriage conflicts with her religious faith raises questions that both sides in this argument need to take seriously. Up to a point, this particular dispute has been settled – more or less. […]
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I have attended a Catholic church with my husband for 15 years. I am not a Catholic, but I am Christian. We have raised our children as Catholic, and we all attend Mass each week. When I go up in the Communion line with my family, I cross my arms and receive a blessing. […]
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By Bill Dodds
Looking back more than three years, I would call them angels of mercy. At the time, as they sat at our dining room table, I probably thought of them more as messengers of death. The two women weren’t any sort of messengers, in fact. They had simply answered my wife’s request. Earlier in the week, […]
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