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By Claire Chapman
Area religious leaders gathered Jan. 22 for an ecumenical prayer service at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield, for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a global ecumenical observance traditionally celebrated between Jan. 18 and Jan. 25 in the northern hemisphere, the octave of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Columns
By Lucia A. Silecchia
In these past few weeks, I — like so many others — saw the winter’s first snowfalls. Since weather is a perennially popular topic for small talk, it did not take long to see that snowfall receives very different receptions from all those on whom it falls.
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
Theology of the body? Isn’t theology about God, who has no body? How can the body have a theology? And what does it have to do with my life?
Schools
By Addison Crofford
I joined 15 classmates from St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly on a Nov. 13-16 mission trip to Camden, N.J., just across the river from downtown Philadelphia. Camden is a community struggling with some of the highest drug and crime rates in America and could use some help.
Bishop Burbidge
Catholics are called to walk compassionately with couples experiencing the heartache of infertility, and to help them access “life-giving and restorative options” to conceive a child, while resisting the appeal of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, which “remains replete with moral difficulties,” Bishop Michael F. Burbidge wrote in a new pastoral letter.
National
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA, which serves more than 5 million people living in poverty a year, announced Jan. 27 it will open a second national office in Washington this year to advocate on issues related to poverty and homelessness and to expand the organization’s presence among policymakers in the nation’s capital.
National
By Daniel Payne
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops argued Jan. 26 that its long-standing refugee program is a “work of mercy” after Vice President JD Vance criticized the bishops’ positions on immigration issues.
Pope Francis
By AC WIMMER
Pope Francis emphasized how suffering can become “an occasion for a transformative encounter” with God in a new message released Jan. 27 describing three distinct ways the divine draws close to those experiencing illness and hardship.
National
By Kate Quiñones
A group of Catholic scientists is hosting an event for Catholic high schoolers, parents, and teachers to showcase “the harmony between the Catholic faith and science.”
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — The Gospel is a word of compassion, mercy, light, freedom and joy, Pope Francis said.
