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By Elizabeth Foss
I’m tired of multi-tasking. I’m tired of productivity. I’m tired of the blurred lines between work and home. I’m tired of scrolling Instagram while watching a football game, talking on the phone while searching online for a recipe, and people texting everywhere — including behind the wheel of a car. If we are in the […]
Local
The norms for the United States, established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 1966 and reiterated in November 1973, may be summarized as follows: Abstinence Everyone 14 years of age and older is bound to observe the law of abstinence. Abstinence is to be observed on all Fridays within the season of […]
Schools
St. Ann School in Arlington kickstarted Catholic Schools Week with a student Mass Jan. 28. Students worked with St. Ann parishioner Maureen Donnelly to deliver the readings and prayers of the faithful and with parishioner Chris Sullivan to train as ushers. Next up, the student council took the lead to arrange a student appreciation day […]
Schools
On Tuesday of Catholic Schools Week, students at St. John the Beloved Academy in McLean celebrated “Wit and Whimsy Day” Jan. 30. The day was designed to enhance students’ capacities for wit, insight and good humor. Students were encouraged to dress up as a character from a book or fairy tale, as well as memorize […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
One after another, influencers are taking the plunge. The cold-water plunge. I couldn’t help but follow along when Elizabeth Ries, a lovable TV personality from Minneapolis, joined the trend this week, heading to Duluth, Minn., to dip into Lake Superior. It was zero degrees, and the mother of three was multi-tasking: filming for TV while […]
Schools
By Margaret Rohde
The Fine Arts Department at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington began the new year on a high note with the school’s annual Broadway Knights showcase, where students — and a handful of faculty members — put together a medley of music, dance and fun to bring together the O’Connell community. This unique event is […]
Global
By Jude Atemanke
A religious missionary order in Nigeria is appealing for the safe release of two of its members who were abducted from a parish rectory Feb. 1. In a statement issued Feb. 2, Father Dominic Ukpong, the provincial secretary of the Congregation of Missionaries Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (also known as the Claretians), […]
Global
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Catholic priests are increasingly confronted with solitude and secularism, so they need support and encouragement from their parishes, the church as a whole and one another, said the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy. Today, many priests are “tired and discouraged, caught off guard by the challenges of today’s society […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Feeling sad, disappointed, or ashamed of oneself sometimes is normal and even can lead to conversion, but when people wallow in their sadness it becomes a dangerous vice, Pope Francis said. “We all go through ordeals that generate sorrow in us, because life makes us formulate dreams that are then shattered,” the […]
National
By Joan Frawley Desmond
When the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honors Helen Alvaré with its annual Christifideles Laici Award Feb. 8, the pro-life legal scholar and speaker will deliver some hard truths to her Beltway audience. Given the headwinds facing the Catholic Church and the pro-life movement, Alvaré said lay Catholics “can’t leave the challenge of communicating the faith […]
