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By Shari Zamarra
The song, “This Little Light of Mine,” headlined a video played at the TEACH 20th anniversary party Apr. 6 at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax. There was much to celebrate. TEACH (Toward Educating America’s CHildren) has been shining a light on the need to educate children in Guatemala for more than 20 years. […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The morning after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, Pope Francis pleaded with nations to avoid a further escalation of the violence. “I make a heartfelt appeal for a halt to any action that might fuel a spiral of violence with the risk of dragging the Middle East into […]
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Giuseppe Cecchi, a native of Milan, Italy, who immigrated to the United States in 1961 and became a renowned Washington real estate developer, died at his home in McLean April 4 at 93. Perhaps best known for building the famed Watergate Hotel, Cecchi was a beloved member of the Catholic community and gave generously to […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is planning to make the longest trip of his papacy in September, visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore, the Vatican press office announced. During the 12-day Asian tour, the press office said April 12, he intends to visit: Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, Sept. 3-6; Port Moresby and Vanimo, […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME — Pope Francis took over the catechism classes at St. John Vianney parish on the far eastern edge of Rome to inaugurate his “School of Prayer.” The pope went, unannounced, to the parish after school April 11 and met with about 200 children, Vatican News reported. He spoke to them about prayer and answered […]
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By Anna Harvey
The Arlington diocese released the Diocesan Synodal Listening Sessions Synthesis Report April 11, following three diocesan synodal listening sessions Feb. 29 and March 3 and 5. The report summarized topics and comments from the listening sessions. The diocese hosted the listening sessions at the request of Pope Francis and the United States Conference of Catholic […]
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By Carol Glatz
ROME — The success of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will much depend on also including parish priests in the process, said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington. Of the more than 360 bishops, religious and laypeople who participated in the first assembly at the Vatican last October, the small number who were ordained […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Today’s “throwaway culture,” driven by “profit, efficiency and success,” marginalizes people with disabilities and threatens their God-given dignity, Pope Francis said. Using “utilitarian and functional criteria” to decide the value of a human life can lead to “serious violations of the rights of the weakest people” and create “great injustice and inequality,” […]
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By Daniel Payne
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori attended a hearing at a U.S. bankruptcy court April 8 in which several witnesses testified on the abuse they endured at the hands of church officials. The archdiocese said in a release April 8 that the archbishop “attended (the hearing) in which victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in the Catholic […]
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