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By Thomas Craughwell
The Acts of the Apostles does not tell us what became of St. Andrew after the first Pentecost, when the disciples scattered to carry the gospel to every corner of the Mediterranean world. Tradition says that St. Andrew carried the gospel to Greece, although the Russians believe that he also traveled into their country. At the town of Patras on Greece's western coast St. Andrew was arrested and tied to an X-shaped cross. The legend claims it took him three days to die, and all the while he hung on the cross St. Andrew preached to anyone who passed by.
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By Simon Caldwell
LONDON – An American deacon has recounted how he was suddenly and inexplicably cured from a severe spinal condition after he prayed for healing to Cardinal John Henry Newman. Deacon Jack Sullivan, 71, of Marshfield, Mass., told a Nov. 9 press conference in London that he was transformed after praying to Cardinal Newman, a 19th-century […]
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By Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE (CNS) – The U.S. bishops voted Nov. 17 to approve a pastoral letter on marriage, despite the concern voiced by some bishops about the document’s pastoral tone and content. Nearly 100 changes in two rounds of amendments preceded the 180-45 vote in favor of “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan” on the […]
Schools
Twenty students from Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax recently auditioned for the District XI Chorus at Centreville High School. Of those who auditioned, 17 students were chosen for the chorus. Those students are: Kelly Bui, Gabriella Cagampan, Dana Chessman, Eric Dinh, Lauren Dore, Dominick Gilbert, Allison Heinz, Katie Kondas, Michael Kruczkowski, Anna Lee, […]
Movies
In the disaster movie to end all fiasco flicks, a doomsday cataclysm results in billions losing their lives as the earth’s crust breaks apart, dismantling civilization and rearranging the continents. Director Roland Emmerich gives his special-effects wizards license to test the limits of the technically plausible and morally palatable, while asking moviegoers to take heart […]
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By Catholic News Service
BEAUMONT, Texas (CNS) – “We hope and pray that our soldiers do not die on the battlefields. Then something like this happens on one of our bases by a fellow soldier,” said Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont about the Nov. 5 shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas that left 13 dead […]
Arts
By Katie Bahr
“Our job is not to tear down the things we hate. Our job is to build up the things we love.” That quote, from an Irish revolutionary dating back to the 1920s, is the motto that Frank O’Reilly, a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Parish in Front Royal, says he has tried to live […]
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By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – Nearly six years after beginning the task, the U.S. bishops hope to conclude their work on the English translation and U.S. adaptations of the Roman Missal first introduced in Latin in 2002. The final five action items related to the missal will come before the bishops at their fall general meeting Nov. 16-19 […]
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By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Republicans won the two governor’s races up for grabs in 2009. In Virginia, voters elected a governor whose pro-life views had come under fire from his opponent. Bob McDonnell, a Catholic who graduated from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, won with nearly 60 percent of the vote over his Democratic rival, R. […]
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By Andrea Slivka
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Msgr. John Esseff, retired exorcist of the Diocese of Scranton, Pa., shared his experiences with demonic spirits in a talk to students at Bowling Green State University, but his main message for them was the power of Jesus within them. “Your power through him and with him and in him is […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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