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By Russell Shaw
It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men, old and young, office and construction workers, corporate lawyers, police officers, messengers and many others cut short their lunch hours and stream up the aisles to have a cruciform smudge of ashes planted on their foreheads. It’s a yearly reminder that […]
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By Anna Harvey
Sporting hearts on their clothing and ashes on their foreheads, diocesan Catholics marked the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday Feb. 14 also St. Valentine’s Day. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Mass in Burke Hall at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. In his homily, Bishop Burbidge encouraged the faithful to reconsider their […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will go to Venice in April to visit a women’s prison where the Holy See has set up its pavilion for the Venice Biennale, a major international contemporary art exhibition. The pope will make the one-day trip April 28, according to a joint press release Feb. 13 from the Dicastery […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The vice of “acedia,” often translated as “sloth,” can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one’s relationship with God, Pope Francis said. “The demon of acedia wants precisely to destroy the simple joy of the […]
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The Knights of Columbus Council 8183 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ridge hosted an “Italian night” dinner last month to foster a greater community of faith. The council served a crowd of more than 150 people Jan. 27 with salad, pasta and meatballs. The dinner was part of a council effort to […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
James “Jim” Hannan, who played most of his 10-year major league baseball career pitching for the Washington Senators 1962-70, died Feb. 9 at 85. Hannan was a parishioner of St. Ambrose Church in Annandale. James John Hannan was born Jan. 7, 1940, in Jersey City, N.J. The Notre Dame graduate was a pitcher for the […]
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The Catholic Herald has published a number of articles regarding confession, including the following: A guide for confession Straight Answers: Making a Good Confession Making a good confession Guide to the sacrament of confession
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By Jim Hale
They came by the thousands, standing in long lines to pray before the first cousin and disciple of Christ, who is known as the “Apostle of the Impossible.” Venerated since ancient times, the arm of St. Jude is on a 100-city American pilgrimage, including four churches in the Arlington diocese, where the response was overwhelming. […]
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By Jonah McKeown
A Catholic educator from Texas says teaching students about Black Catholic saints and other holy men and women of color “gives not only representation, but new role models for all of our students.” “Being Catholic is an overarching, cross-racial identity. There is no outgroup in the Catholic Church,” said Kaye Crawford, who founded the site […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — St. María Antonia de Paz Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, devoted herself completely to helping others experience God’s closeness and compassion, Pope Francis said after he declared the 18th-century consecrated laywoman a saint. By letting her heart and life be “touched” and “healed” by Christ, he said, “she proclaimed him tirelessly her […]
