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By Lucia A. Silecchia
With the arrival of Easter, one of the greatest joys in the lives of parishes around the world is the opportunity to welcome new sisters and brothers in Christ through the sacred celebrations at the great Easter Vigil. To all who celebrate this profound moment this year, welcome. May the graces flowing from the waters […]
National
By Shannon Mullen
A top U.S. military hospital ended its contract with a community of Franciscan friars just before Holy Week, putting a for-profit firm in charge of Catholic pastoral care, according to the Archdiocese of the Military Services. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the head of the archdiocese, blasted the move by Walter Reed National Military Medical Center […]
Global
By Kevin J. Jones
Pope Francis and other Christian leaders called for prayer and a rededication to the peace secured in Northern Ireland by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, acknowledging that “open wounds” from the conflict still exist. “Today marks the 25th anniversary of the so-called ‘Good Friday Agreement’ or ‘Belfast Agreement,’ which ended the decades-long violence that […]
National
By Joe Bukuras
An arrest has been made in connection with the vandalism of St. Paulinus Catholic Church in Syracuse, Neb., that occurred on Palm Sunday weekend. Travis Ross, 32, was arrested April 6 by the Otoe County Sheriff’s Office after video evidence and witnesses led authorities to name him a suspect. Father Ryan Salisbury, St. Paulinus’ pastor, […]
Local
James Ryan Joseph and Sean-Michael Vincent Nypaver will be ordained to the transitional diaconate April 15 at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, taking them one step closer to ordination to the priesthood next year. Read their bios below. James Joseph was born Jan. 13, 1992, in Allentown, Pa., to Jim and Debbie Joseph. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The women disciples, who were the first to meet the risen Jesus, offer a lesson to all Christians: “We encounter Jesus by giving witness to him,” Pope Francis said. The entire city of Jerusalem had seen Jesus crucified on the cross, yet the women who find his tomb empty, run to share […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.” “In Jesus the decisive passage of humanity has been made: the […]
Local
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was the celebrant and homilist for the Easter Vigil Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington April 8. The liturgy included the ceremonial blessing of the new fire, lighting of the paschal candle, and a series of Scripture readings and responsorial Psalms by candlelight, alternating between English and […]
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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge led a Celebration of the Passion of the Lord April 7 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. In his homily, Bishop Burbidge invoked the theme of the second year of preparation for the Diocesan Golden Jubilee: “Rejoice.” “We rejoice because, as Pope Francis says: ‘The crucifix does not […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Easter is the time “to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope and to look with confidence to the future, for Christ is risen and has changed the direction of history,” Pope Francis said as he celebrated the Easter Vigil Mass. “The power of Easter […]
