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By Elizabeth Foss
On Easter Tuesday morning, it sleeted.
It wasn’t the dramatic, wind-whipped kind of storm that rattles the windows and announces itself with authority, but a softer, almost hesitant sleet.
Local
Diocesan families across the diocese are invited to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial at the annual Diocesan Festival June 13 at the Clarke County Fairgrounds in Berryville.
Pope Leo XIV
By Kristina Millare
Pope Leo XIV records his “Pray with the Pope” video each month, but how does he choose the intentions he wants the church to pray for?
Columns
By Lucia A. Silecchia
Several springs ago, I came to the Easter Vigil Mass with the joyous anticipation of Easter muted a bit.
Local
By Anna Donofrio, ca
Every conversion story has a turning point, the moment at which a person experiences a personal encounter with God and makes a dynamic change.
Local
By Anna Donofrio
This Easter, hundreds of people came home to the Catholic Church. And some two decades after he was baptized, University of Mary Washington junior Spencer Lombardo was among them.
Local
Parishes
By Jim Hale
On the outside, it looked like his life was fulfilled. “But I still felt like there was something missing and I didn’t know what it was,” he said.
Local
By Jim Hale
In total 27 students were received into the church at the Easter Vigil, a record number at GMU. Thirteen more in OCIA (formerly RCIA) are discerning whether to receive the sacraments in the coming months or next Easter.
Bishop Burbidge
National
Pope Leo XIV
U.S. prelates were quick to come to Pope Leo XIV’s defense following a social media post by President Donald Trump criticizing the pontiff.
Global
By Francesca Pollio Fenton
After traveling approximately 695,000 miles over its 10-day trip around the moon, the Artemis II crew — made up of astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen and Victor Glover — made their splash landing into the Pacific Ocean, arriving safely back on Earth April 10.


