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By Christina Capecchi
Two parts reverence, one part mischief. That’s how I’d sum up my grandma, whose name — Elinor Marcella — captures her mix of poise and playfulness. She raised five kids with a kind of 1950s ease: neck bows and neatly coiffed hair, family dinners and at-home haircuts, playing Bud and Travis on the record player […]
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By Russell Shaw
There’s a glimmer of hope for the embattled natural family emanating suddenly from a source that lately has been anything but family-friendly — I mean the federal government. But before getting into that, consider some landmarks in the family’s decline during the last three decades. The high point for marriage was 1996 when Congress enacted […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
As we approach Easter, I cannot stop thinking about what Martha teaches all of us who have ever fallen to our knees and begged on behalf of someone we love. We learn what it is to bring a need to the Lord, to wait on his timing, to trust in his perfect provision according to […]
Pope Francis
By Hannah Brockhaus
In one of the busiest liturgical periods at the Vatican, Pope Francis is scheduled to preside over nine Masses, liturgies, and devotions between April 2 and Easter Monday, April 10. With Pope Francis having been hospitalized for four days for a respiratory infection and released April 1, it was unclear if he would be well […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — During Lent this year, residents of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where Pope Francis lives, decided to clean out their closets and give away things other people could use. “You can’t imagine how much stuff there was,” the pope said. Leading his weekly general audience April 5, the pope said Holy Week is […]
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Bishop Burbidge
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, May the Risen Lord, who fills us with his love and consolation, be with you during this Sacred Season of Easter! The same Lord who was raised from the dead in Jerusalem and inspired the great acts of heroism in the early Church seeks to inspire you, today. He […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
As families prepare for their Easter feasts, priests suggest an extra step: blessing the ingredients. On Holy Saturday, parishes across the diocese will hold an Easter meal blessing, where families bring their Easter foods in baskets to receive a blessing from the parish priest. Father John D. Kelly, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in […]
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By Anna Harvey
“Good morning, good morning! Let’s learn about vocations,” speaker Daniel Harms sang as eighth grade students processed into All Saints Catholic Church in Manassas. Students laughed as Harms improvised songs on the guitar, describing individual students in the crowd. More than 1,300 eighth graders from Catholic schools across the diocese gathered March 28 for the […]
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By Anna Harvey
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement March 20 expressing “great concern” over current and proposed surgical and chemical treatments for gender dysphoria. The 14-page statement advised Catholic health care services to “employ all appropriate resources” to individuals experiencing gender confusion but not to “perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim […]
