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By Richard Szczepanowski
WASHINGTON – More than 3,500 people crowded into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception April 24 to attend the first traditional Latin Mass in decades to be celebrated at the high altar there. Sponsored by the Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy, the Mass in the extraordinary form was […]
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By Fr. John Catoir
In the February 2010 issue of “Catholic Update,” a publication under the auspices of St. Anthony Messenger Press, there is an excellent article by Jesuit Father Mark E. Thibodeaux, “Praydreaming: Key to Discernment.” He speaks of prayerful daydreaming as the key to discernment. Accordingly, the Holy Spirit speaks to us through our own daydreams and […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI received a cake on his 83rd birthday from the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, which also presented him with a list of the projects they have funded in his name this year. The 120-member group – including Cardinals Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington – […]
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By Thomas J. Craughwell
Blessed Margaret's life is one of the most heart-wrenching stories in the calendar of saints. She was born blind, with severe curvature of the spine; her right leg was an inch and a half shorter than her left, and her left arm was malformed. She never grew beyond four feet tall.
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By Fr. Peter J. Daly
I wish I were a better priest. I wish I prayed more. Then maybe I would have grace to share when needed. I wish I knew the Scriptures better. Then I would have the right words to say when sorrows come and tragedy visits a household. But time and again I know that I am […]
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By Teresa Hoffman Greenley
When Father Horace (“Tuck”) Grinnell celebrates the Arlington Diocese’s healing Mass at a different parish each month, the New Spirit Singers (NSS) are there beside him to provide music of comfort, hope and reconciliation – a healing ministry joined nearly three years ago by the choir that first came together in 1972 at Holy Spirit […]
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By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY – The Roman Curia’s headline-grabbing defense of Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of the clerical sex abuse scandal has demonstrated that when it comes to Vatican communications, the pope is not a micromanager. Twice during Holy Week liturgies, the pope was caught unawares when his aides spoke passionately about the barrage of criticism the […]
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By Catholic News Service
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Benedictine Father Paul Marx, the founder and former president of Human Life International in Front Royal, died March 20 in Minnesota at St. Cloud Hospital. He was 89. A funeral Mass for Father Marx was to be celebrated March 26 at St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville, followed by interment in […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
If you ask Ken Robinson, he’ll tell you he has been a parishioner of St. Agnes Church in Arlington since 1948. In-between his sophomore and junior years at Boston College, the now 81-year-old retired Marine Corps general visited that parish for the first time while attending “summer camp” at Marine Corps Base Quantico. St. Agnes […]
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Here is the text of a statement from the U.S. bishops on health reform signed into law March 23 by President Barack Obama. The statement was approved by the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: For nearly a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have called for […]
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