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By Jim Hale
Deacon Sean Nypaver remembers the moment the call came. He was 6 years old, sitting in church in Pittsburgh, wondering about what he was going to be when he grew up. “I thought, ‘Maybe an astronaut, or a professional baseball player,’ ” he said. “And then I thought, ‘Look at the priest, what’s he doing? […]
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By Anna Harvey
As Gregorian chant filled the air, little feet pattered among the pews and fingers eagerly pointed at the monstrance. The family holy hour at St. John the Apostle Church in Leesburg is just one of many examples throughout the diocese of bringing Jesus to the littlest of his flock. Marissa Ellis brought her son, Anthony, […]
National
By Daniel Payne
“Much longer than any of us.” That’s how long Anne Kenny-Urban says the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart’s newly installed organ will last. Kenny-Urban, a board member of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Foundation in the Diocese of Richmond, is part of the huge team of administrators and advocates who have spent nearly a […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Bette Nash, the world’s longest-serving flight attendant and parishioner of Sacred Heart Church in Manassas, has died at age 88. She had been diagnosed recently with breast cancer. The oldest of three sisters, Nash was born Dec. 31, 1935, and grew up just outside Atlantic City, N.J. After working as a secretary, Nash took a […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Always pray, and pray especially for an end to all wars, Pope Francis told children during Mass concluding the first World Children’s Day. “We are here to pray, to pray together and to pray to God,” the father, who created the world, to his son, Jesus, who saved humanity, and to the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Catholics fighting against human trafficking must work together in order to be truly effective against this “odious” crime, Pope Francis told an international network of religious working against human trafficking. “Human trafficking is a ‘systemic’ evil and, therefore, we can and must eliminate it through a systematic, multi-level approach,” he said in […]
Global
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Keyun Ruan, chief information security officer at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, posed the question, “Why do we need AGI?” in reference to artificial general intelligence — AI systems that can match or exceed human intelligence across a wide range of situations. Speaking at a conference on human flourishing and technology in the […]
Columns
By Kevin Carroll
On the last Monday of May, our nation honors her war dead. Every generation of Americans touched by war wrestles with how to draw meaning from the loss of dear friends in combat. This task is now inescapable for those of us who served after September 11, 2001. Since 9/11, the military suffered 7,085 combat […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first “millennial” to become a saint. In a meeting May 23 with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for Saints’ Causes, the pope signed decrees […]
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