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By Catholic News Service
ST. LOUIS – The U.S. bishops join with other religious leaders and civic leaders “in pledging to work for healing and reconciliation” after a series of racial conflicts “that have taken place around our beloved country,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky. The archbishop, who is the president of the U.S. Conference of […]
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, […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
If you are one of the hundreds of commuters who brave the Northern Virginia roads every morning, then you might have noticed five men in red jackets cycling beside you on your way to work. Biking 4 Vocations, a team of cycling priests and seminarians took to Route 1 June 5 on their way to […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The hidden heroes of this world are those family members who still go to work and get the job done after staying up all night tending to a sick loved one, Pope Francis said. In fact, the family “has always been the closest ‘hospital.’ And still today in many parts of the […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
There is nothing quite like cleaning a machete wound to make you realize you are not in Virginia anymore. For Laura Shaw, this was just one of the skills she acquired during a mission trip to Honduras in 2012. Growing up in the suburbs of Manassas, Shaw never imagined she’d go on a medical mission. […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
Sometimes the opening is the hardest part. I’ve been sitting here for quite some time, trying to come up with a clever or profound or even just passable way to open an article about Bruce/Caitlin Jenner. It isn’t easy. And so I turn to Facebook for distraction. I find no distraction, but rather that Vanity […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – A sister from Ireland and a sister from New Zealand were rushed to a hospital in Rome June 8 after having spent a weekend trapped in an elevator without food or water. The 58-year-old Irish religious and the 68-year-old religious from New Zealand “are fine, but are not speaking to the press,” […]
Pope Francis
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Anyone who has taken the wrong road in life can “turn back” and experience the mercy of Jesus, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of mostly young pilgrims about to set off on an overnight walk. Everyone has fallen and made mistakes, but is it important to “get up right away and […]
Local
By Zoey Di Mauro | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The crowd of people who will gather at Pope Francis’s open air Mass in Washington in September won’t be able to experience the interior beauty of the Basilica of the National Shine of the Immaculate Conception during the Mass. So the winning students of an altar design contest decided to bring the architecture […]
Global
By Barbara J. Fraser | Catholic News Service
LIMA, Peru – Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to send a strong moral message – one message that could make some readers uncomfortable, some observers say. “The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible […]
