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By Sophia Grace Karak
On the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4, a group of 13 senior girls from Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores headed to San Damiano, the diocesan retreat center in Frederick County, for their annual weekend retreat.
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
There was a time when Katherine Louise DeGroot didn’t consider quiet suburbs or small towns. She was a city girl, thank you very much, and it suited her work as a nanny and a photographer.
Columns
By Sister Constance Veit
Synodality has become a bit of a buzz word in the church. Pope Francis has been talking about synodality since the beginning of his pontificate. He believes it is “the path that God expects of the church in the third millennium,” a “constitutive,” or essential, element of the church. The pope’s focus on synodality is […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide in scaling the lofty mountain of purgatory in the second book of Dante’s tour-de-force account of the afterlife, “The Divine Comedy.” They’ve […]
Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Arlington is home to a rich history and welcoming community. Richmond Bishop Peter L. Ireton established the parish in 1945 in response to the request of 16 Black Catholics to establish a Black Catholic parish in Arlington County where they could worship in […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
I just finished a truly amazing, yearlong class on prayer. In the last session, we took the Myers-Briggs personality test, to help us discover which prayer methods might be the most fruitful for us. I learned I am an ENFP. In my results, I read the following.
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
As Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day, the commemoration of all the faithful departed, nears, we ask the good and merciful Lord to grant to the holy souls in purgatory everlasting life in paradise and unparalleled peace to their grieving families and friends on earth.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church must put more effort into ensuring that the sacrament of confirmation is not the "sacrament of goodbye" for young people, who receive it and then do not come to church again until they want to get married, Pope Francis said.
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Schools
By Anna Donofrio
Little voices rose and fell throughout the church as adults gently hushed. Families with children of all ages gathered for the annual Mass for Homeschool Families at Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville Oct. 25, celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge. In his homily, Bishop Burbidge acknowledged several chancery employees seated in the front pews, including […]
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By Anna Donofrio
It was the summer of 2006, and Father John C. Cregan had a problem. As the newly assigned bishop’s delegate for clergy in the diocesan clergy office, he had hoped that his predecessor’s secretary would help him learn the dynamic of the busy office. But then the secretary retired. “In the middle of that, my […]
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