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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Rose Benté Lee Ostapenko died July 20 in Arlington. She was born in Fulda, Germany, May 14, 1919, the youngest of 12 children. She studied dress design at the Marian School in Fulda. In the late 1930s, she immigrated to the United States to join her family. She married Raymond H. Benté, and together they […]
National
By Catholic News Service
RICHMOND – In a ruling hailed by Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori as “a major victory for the First Amendment,” a federal appeals court in Richmond said two Maryland pregnancy centers cannot be compelled to post notices that they do not have licensed medical professionals on staff. In separate decisions, a three-judge panel of the […]
National
By Joseph Austin Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – At the end of a process that has taken her 15 years to complete, world-renowned Rwandan genocide survivor and peace advocate Immaculee Ilibagiza became an American citizen the morning of April 17 in New York City. “I was completely in tears,” she told Catholic News Service in a phone interview April 18. “To […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Catholic devotion to the saints appears to be alive and well, and Pope Benedict XVI continues to proclaim new saints at a regular pace. The official calendar of saints’ feast days will grow in October when the pope canonizes seven men and women, including Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai and three laypeople: […]
Local
A hot-air balloon floats down to a field next to Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Winchester last month. Fr. Michael J. Dobbins, parochial vicar, was returning from dinner with a parish family when he witnessed the unusual sight. He quickly grabbed his camera from the rectory in order to capture the colorful guest.
Schools
By Catholic News Service
MILWAUKEE – Msgr. Ross Shecterle has been selected as the new president-rector of Sacred Heart School of Theology, the graduate seminary in Franklin. He replaces Msgr. Jan de Jong, a Sacred Heart priest and president-rector of the seminary since 2008 who is retiring at the end of June. Msgr. Shecterle, a priest of the Archdiocese […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Although it has taken more than 400 years, the sainthood cause of Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci, the 16th-century missionary to China, appears to be back on track. Bishop Claudio Giuliodori, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Macerata, Italy, where Father Ricci was born in 1552, formally closed the diocesan phase of the […]
Columns
By Stephen Kent
The U.S. Senate, in failing to enact a proposal that was only a feeble response to the homicidal epidemic in the country, delivered an insult to all who died, all who loved them, those who traveled to Washington to plead for legislation that would at least slow down firearms murders. The Senate had agreed in […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
Students in kindergarten through eighth grade at Sacred Heart Academy in Winchester made 532 bologna and cheese and 166 cheese sandwiches for the homeless last week. The sandwiches will be distributed through the Congregational Community Action Project. Students wrote messages, such as “Made with love” and “One must see God in everyone,” on the sandwich […]
Movies
Directed and co-written by Oliver Stone from the 2010 novel by Don Winslow, this vicious, blood-soaked saga of drug lords glorifies primal urges, vulgarity and man’s inhumanity toward man. Two friends (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) and their shared lover (Blake Lively) run a successful business growing the best marijuana in North America. When a […]
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