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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Spain’s top tourist attraction, the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona, must give priority to ensuring it is a place where people are inspired to pray, Pope Francis said. The architectural and artistic masterpiece of Antoni Gaudí, which is still under construction, attracts close to 4 million visitors a year. “Like the spires […]
Books
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Author: Kevin Sweeney of St. Francis de Sales Church in Purcellville, who previously authored “Back to School” and “Coaching Baseball.” Why did you write this book? In August 2020, when I was 46 years old, I suffered a stroke that left me struggling to speak and almost died. I wrote this book because God spared […]
Pope Francis
By Matthew Santucci
Pope Francis has issued a message to the world’s children in anticipation of the church’s first-ever World Children’s Day, which will take place in Rome May 25-26, reminding them that the key to happiness lies in cultivating a prayer life and personal relationship with Christ, which in turn forms the basis of broader social action. […]
Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? St. Agnes began as a mission of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Arlington in 1919. Mass was first celebrated in a grocery store, then a movie theater and finally in a public school. Admiral A. W. Weaver offered land for $1,300 under the condition that the parish be named after […]
Local
By Jim Hale
In many ways Teddy Schwab is an ordinary 18-year-old. He’s in the homestretch of graduating from high school on time, already receiving college credits from coursework at the Catholic University of America in Washington, playing recreation league basketball, working out at the gym three days a week and playing video games. But when you talk […]
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By Jim Hale
Genevieve Brown laughs when asked why she decided to embark on a pilgrimage to visit all 70 churches in the diocese. “When I started, I didn’t have a profound reason for doing it,” she said. “But by the end, there was a profound reason. I realized that I wanted to embody the closing prayer of […]
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By Jim Hale
America in 1924 was a difficult and often discriminatory environment for Catholic Irish Americans, and there was little enthusiasm to recognize their contributions by erecting monuments honoring them in the nation’s capital. Few Catholic monuments exist today in Washington, but the “Nuns of the Battlefield” monument, in the shadows of the Cathedral of St. Matthew […]
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By Jim Hale
Father Daniel L. Mode speaks of the day it happened — June 28, 2005 — the day 11 Navy Seals died in Afghanistan in Operation Redwing, depicted in the movie “Lone Survivor” starring Mark Wahlberg. Father Mode was their chaplain. Now chaplain of the U.S. Coast Guard as well as a captain, Father Mode was […]
Global
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Just as Jesus drove out merchants from the temple in Jerusalem, Christians should cleanse themselves from a transactional relationship with God by developing an intimacy with him like that of a family in their home, Pope Francis said. Speaking to some 20,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus […]
National
By Tyler Arnold
Catholic bishops are urging lawmakers to oppose a bill that would create a federally sanctioned right to access in vitro fertilization — a fertility treatment that has resulted in the deaths of millions of human embryos in the United States. The bill, called the Access to Family Building Act, was introduced by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, […]
