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By Julia Willis | Catholic Herald Intern
When Lewis Thorp’s oldest daughter came home after attending the diocesan WorkCamp and couldn’t stop talking about it, he didn’t understand what made the program so special. Now, as he prepares to begin his 16th year as a WorkCamp volunteer, Thorp fully understands his daughter’s response. “She came home full of life and excitement, and […]
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By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Focusing on poverty and sacrificing for the poor are the heart of the Gospel, not signs of communism, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. Furthermore, if Christians don’t dig deep and generously open up their wallets, they do not have “genuine faith,” the pope said June 16 during the Mass in […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis once said that a person who “puts his hand in his pocket to show that he helps the church while with the other hand steals from the state, from the poor” is not simply a sinner, but is corrupt. While someone may think it is clever to find a way […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
ROME – “Laudato Si’,” the title Pope Francis chose for his encyclical on the environment, comes from a hymn of praise by St. Francis of Assisi that emphasizes being in harmony with God, with other creatures and with other human beings, said the head of the Franciscan order. Sitting under towering trees, surrounded by potted […]
National
By Maria Wiering
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Pope Francis accepted the resignations June 15 of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee A. Piche of St. Paul and Minneapolis and named coadjutor Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of Newark, New Jersey, a canon lawyer, to be apostolic administrator of the Minnesota archdiocese. In a statement, Archbishop Nienstedt said […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
ST. LOUIS – The U.S. bishops gathered in St. Louis for their spring general assembly heard presentations on the pope’s upcoming encyclical on the environment, the U.S. church’s ongoing work in promoting traditional marriage and the need to remain vigilant in protecting children from abuse. On the first day of their meeting June 10, there […]
National
By Jennifer Brinker
ST. LOUIS – As the institution of marriage faces unprecedented challenges, the Catholic Church continues to promote and defend marriage as being between one man and one woman, said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco. As chairman of the bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, Archbishop Cordileone gave bishops at their […]
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By Dave Borowski
By all measures, Lydia Ann Kraiger is an outstanding young woman. Throughout middle and high school, Kraiger, 16, was active in her parish, St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, and her community. She volunteered at the Arlington diocesan WorkCamp, maintained a 4.07 GPA at Oakton High School and has been member of the National […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Efforts to convince people that the differences between male and female are simply social conventions, which limit individual freedom, ignore the fact that men and women need each other in order to understand themselves, Pope Francis said. “The differences between man and woman are not of the order of opposition or subordination, […]
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By Dave Borowski
Like Easter, Corpus Christi is a moveable feast. It’s celebrated the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, which this year was June 4. Most parishes push the celebration to the following Sunday. To accommodate their students, St. Timothy School in Chantilly celebrated the feast June 5. Students from the school, with the help of Amy Powers, a […]
