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By Catholic News Service
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. – The mother of slain journalist Marie Colvin told reporters the day after she was killed Feb. 22 in Homs, Syria, that her daughter was “totally committed to what she did.” She knew “the importance of telling the story and writing it and getting it out to the world no matter what. […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – “Mamma mia,” Pope Benedict XVI said as a dove flew over his head and back into his apartment Jan. 29 after he and two Italian school children released the bird as a symbol of peace. The pope and representatives of the Italian Catholic Action children’s section release doves during the Sunday Angelus […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – During a Mass marked by a joyful homecoming of faith, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl welcomed 71 members of a former Episcopal parish into full communion in the Catholic Church with the rite of reception Oct. 9 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. “Today is a […]
Global
By Simon Caldwell
LIVERPOOL, England – The Catholic bishops of England and Wales offered prayers for the soul of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who died at age 87 following a stroke. Baroness Thatcher, who led Britain from 1979 to 1990, died “peacefully” the morning of April 8, according to her family. Soon after news of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied two companies’ request for an injunction while they challenge part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate in court. In an order filed Dec. 26, Sotomayor ruled that the owners of the Hobby Lobby craft store and the Mardel Christian bookstore chains did not […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Labor unions and other worker associations are necessary to help propel workers and their families out of poverty amid a “broken economy,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. “Economic renewal that places working people and their families at the center of economic life cannot take […]
National
By Laura Dodson Catholic News Service
MELBOURNE, Fla. – The president of the National Council of Catholic Women said she sees “a reawakening of women now that they’re seeing how much our church needs us,” especially with regard to efforts to protect religious freedom. Women are “stepping forward and speaking about our values. Unfortunately, for so long women thought they should […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
Bishop O’Connell Theatre is presenting the musical “Meet Me in St. Louis” Nov. 16-18. Performances will be held the high school, 6600 Little Falls Road, Arlington, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The musical is based on the heartwarming movie by the same name. Join the Smith family at the 1904 […]
National
By Maria Wiering
BALTIMORE – Jim Bolduc has two favorite pieces of college football memorabilia – a Fighting Irish photo montage of its famed 1988 win over the University of Miami, and a football autographed by Navy quarterback and 1963 Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach. As a 1990 University of Notre Dame graduate and a U.S. Naval Academy […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decided to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper in a Rome juvenile detention facility and wash the feet of some of the young detainees. It marks a change in venue of the previously scheduled March 28 Holy Week event from St. Peter’s Basilica to Rome’s Casal […]
