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By Kimberley Heatherington
“That summer was the best of my childhood, and I knew that it could never be beaten.” Gemma Porter — the adventurous young protagonist in “The Adventures at Lily Creek: A Hermitage of Her Own” (Full Quiver Publishing, 2022) — has a few typical, warm-weather Shenandoah months filled with friends and family, bike rides and hikes, […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
If you have access to a radio station that carries the Saturday matinee broadcasts from the Metroplitan Opera, you have a memorable experience waiting for you Jan. 28. The featured work will be Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” (1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time). This is a deeply moving spiritual drama with one of the […]
Bishop Burbidge
National
January 11, 2023 WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 210 today to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 26). “We commend the House of Representatives for passing legislation to protect innocent children from infanticide, and urge the Senate to follow suit,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, chairman […]
Global
By Jude Atemanke
Dozens of abductees are still being held in captivity following the Christmas Day attack on Angwan Aku Village in Kaduna, a state located in the north of Nigeria, a Catholic priest in the West African country has told ACI Africa in an interview. On Christmas Day 2022, militant Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists attacked Angwan […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Sharing the faith is the “oxygen” that “invigorates and purifies” Christian life, Pope Francis said. Beginning a new series of catechesis focused on evangelization and apostolic zeal, the pope said that when Christian life loses its aim of proclaiming the Gospel, it becomes “self-referential” and “atrophied.” “Without apostolic zeal, faith withers,” he […]
Global
By Jonah McKeown
The Vatican promoter of justice announced Jan. 9 that the investigation into the vanishing of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenaged Vatican citizen whose disappearance in the 1980s has since spawned myriad conspiracy theories, will be reopened. In a brief statement posted to Vatican News, the Holy See Press Office director, Matteo Bruni, reported that the decision […]
Bishop Burbidge
Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointment: Reverend Jeb S. Donelan — from service at the Bánica mission in the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic to Parochial Vicar at Holy Family Parish in Dale City, effective February 1, 2023.
National
By Karen Adams
Bristol, Virginia, “the birthplace of country music,” is known for its thriving music culture, Appalachian mountain setting, and the state line that runs down its main street, separating it from Bristol, Tenn. Father Chris Hess, pastor of St. Anne Church in Bristol since 2018, hopes the city remains famous for those things and not for […]
National
By Jonah McKeown
For the third year in a row, a Catholic podcast has bolted out of the gate after New Year’s Day to become the No. 1 most popular on Apple Podcasts, beating out secular podcasts from The New York Times, NBC News, and NPR. But 2023 is slightly different from 2021 and 2022, for one key […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly followed the Lord even “in the hour of trial” when he was jailed for sexual abuse before his conviction was overturned by Australia’s highest court. Cardinal Pell died in Rome […]
