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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I have a personal problem with the Fourth Commandment. It reads that we should honor our father and mother, but my own father is not an honorable man. He has always been a self-centered person who puts his own needs above everyone else’s. Right now he is elderly and sick with stage 4 cancer. […]
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Fathers Richard E. Dyer and Eric L. Shafer, parochial vicars of Blessed Sacrament Church in Alexandria, stay warm on the roof of Blessed Sacrament School May 22. The priests spent the night on the roof as part of the school’s annual auction.
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By Bill Dodds
“What time is it really?” That’s what our son, Thomas, wanted to know on a road trip across the United States back in 1989. We crossed an invisible line, and suddenly we were in a different time zone, asking “but what time is it really?” I remember when the kids were even younger and a […]
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By Dave Borowski
Colin Davis didn’t come from a religious family. Born May 28, 1982, in Southern California to Todd and Cindy Davis, he was not baptized as his parents were both non-practicing Catholics. In 1992, his father was having some business problems when, on a whim, he went into a Catholic church. “I don’t know why he […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Since childhood, Deacon Dort Bigg dreamed of becoming a professional violinist. “But God had a different plan,” said Deacon Bigg, who studied at The Julliard School in New York after graduating from DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md., in 2001. A medical condition delayed his graduation by two years. During that time, he said he […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Deacon Kevin Dansereau wasn’t intent on taking an office job straight out of college. After graduating with a degree in technical and scientific communications from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, he applied for the Peace Corps. But it wasn’t until he arrived in a rural town in Niger that he learned his assignment would involve […]
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By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church not only needs to provide pastoral care for those with same-sex attraction but it should also make its teaching “accessible, understandable and compelling for people,” said the director of a church apostolate that ministers to homosexuals. Father Paul Check, director of Courage for the past eight years, said Catholics with […]
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By Dave Borowski
For the past four years, Deacon Joseph Farrell has been studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical North American College (NAC) in Rome. But he’s packing up his possessions and heading home to Virginia for his June 6 ordination. Deacon Farrell was born Jan. 2, 1983, in Cape Cod, Mass., to Louis and Carolyn Farrell. […]
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By Russell Shaw
The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States. As predicted, it isn’t – thank God – bloody persecution like the persecution of Christians in many countries. But it’s real persecution and likely to get worse. This new persecution currently has two prongs. One consists of […]
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By Abbey Jaroma | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Once again the hills are filled with the sound of music, only this time the music soars from Benedictine monks rather than the Von Trapp family. In Norcia, Italy, about 70 miles northeast of Rome, there is an international community of monks who operate a craft brewery and spend hours a day chanting […]
