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By Katie Bahr
The mysteries of the rosary have come to life at Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville, thanks to the recent completion of 20 stained-glass windows depicting the glorious, joyful, sorrowful and luminous mysteries. An ongoing project since the new church’s dedication in 2008, the windows were commissioned by Dixon Studios, a Staunton-based business that has been […]
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By Judith Sudilovsky
JERUSALEM – Catholic Relief Services’ international staff and their families in Cairo were evacuated as pro-democracy demonstrations entered their seventh day. “Our current thinking is that we will be out for no more than two days,” CRS country representative Jason Berlanger said in a phone interview with Catholic News Service Jan. 31 as he was […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was a young mom with a preschooler and a new baby and another mother I’d met working at a small magazine called Welcome Home invited me to her house to watch her family in action. She was a Catholic woman, a few years older than me, whom […]
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By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY – Church leaders were watching the unfolding political drama in Egypt with a mixture of hope for reform and concern over potential violence, said the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Vatican Radio Jan. 30 that the widespread unrest that has weakened the 30-year rule of […]
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By Catholic News Service
Warning: Some of the content in this story is extremely graphic. PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia doctor who routinely performed illegal late-term abortions for more than 30 years was charged in the death of a female patient and accused of murdering seven babies born alive in his squalid health clinic. A grand jury indicted Kermit B. […]
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By Katie Collins
The piety at St. Lawrence “is very striking,” said Mary Ann Hartzell, director of religious education at the Alexandria parish for the past four years. “What struck me my first year here, when visiting the church once a day, was that it was never empty.” (See video profile on the parish here.) A recent Thursday […]
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By Catholic News Service
BETHESDA, Md. – R. Sargent Shriver, the founder and first director of the Peace Corps, a major figure in the war on poverty and the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1972, died Jan. 18 in a Bethesda hospital at age 95. Shriver, who was admitted to Suburban Hospital Jan. 16, had announced in 2003 that […]
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By Dave Borowski
It’s recycling at its most profound. Dioceses across the country are consolidating their parishes by closing churches and merging congregations. The sacred artifacts from the closed churches are being acquired by those building or renovating their own. It can be a poignant time for the parish that’s closed, but a joyous one for the community […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Albert A. Anderson Jr. Albert A. Anderson Jr., 65, was born in Norfolk, Va., and has been a parishioner of St. Joseph Church in Alexandria for 20 years. He graduated from Norfolk Catholic High School in 1963 and earned an associate’s degree in data processing and accounting from Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale in […]
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Exactly one year after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people, including the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Pope Benedict XVI named a new archbishop and new auxiliary bishop for that nation’s capital. On the anniversary of the earthquake Jan. 12, the pope named Bishop Guire Poulard of Les Cayes, […]
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