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This sixth grader is ditching devices for service opportunities

By Anna Donofrio
At St. Rita School in Alexandria, a sixth grader is saying “no” to screen time in favor of service opportunities. Wilson Gonzalez Soto, 11, said that for him, serving others in his Alexandria community is more than just about screen-free distraction — it’s biblical.
Local

A theologian in Front Royal answers Catholics’ toughest ethical questions

By Anna Donofrio
E. Christian Brugger — who has three master’s degrees and a PhD in moral theology — regularly writes a column for the National Catholic Register on “Difficult Moral Questions,” from his Front Royal home. A parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal, he and his wife, Melissa, have five children and have moved 19 times across the globe. He specializes in bioethics, sexual ethics and issues of moral cooperation.
Local

King’s message of love remembered at Arlington Mass

By Kevin Schweers
That the scourge of racism remains more than 60 years after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should not prompt despair, but rather motivation for Catholics to pray and work to uphold the dignity of all persons as children of God, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge said during a Mass honoring the civil […]
Pope Leo XIV

To know God, we must welcome Jesus’ humanity, pope says

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said that God is revealed through Jesus' humanity, not solely through a "channel of transmission of intellectual truths." It is through Jesus' life, death and Resurrection that one can come to know God.
Bishop Burbidge
Local

Bishop Burbidge offers help for the hurting

By Jim Hale
Bishop Burbidge pointed to an alarming increase in mental illness among young people due to increasing isolation and lack of connection, resulting in a “sense of drifting and meaninglessness.”
Columns

The Lamb of God

By Fr. Joseph Rampino
This Sunday, John the Baptist, the great voice crying out ahead of the Messiah, tells us who Jesus Christ really is at the heart of his identity and mission. He is “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,” and he is “the Son of God … who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.”
Columns

A newspaper’s enduring value

By Kevin Schweers
“Why a Catholic paper?” Those words appeared on the pages of the first issue of the Catholic Herald in 1976 in a column by Charles W. Carruth, its original editor, may he rest in peace. Carruth’s question endures today for different reasons. Times change, and then they don’t. In 1976, gasoline was $0.59 a gallon, […]
Bishop Burbidge

General Assembly passes extreme abortion amendment

By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Barry C. Knestout
For the second straight year, the General Assembly has passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would add an extreme and deadly “fundamental right” to abortion to Virginia’s constitution.

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