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Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — Aging or declining membership should prompt members of religious orders to ask, “What do we do?” but not to despair, Pope Francis said. Numbers are a real challenge, but “those who get caught up in pessimism put faith aside,” the pope told students and staff of the Claretian Institute of the Theology […]
National
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Middle and high school students across the United States are invited to submit an essay sharing their thoughts on protecting the sanctity of human life for the 2022 Pro-Life Essay Contest sponsored by American Life League’s Culture of Life Studies Program. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Excellence in Writing, the essay contest […]
Local
More than 200 Catholic school superintendents and network leaders from 38 states met at the Crystal City Hilton in Arlington Oct. 16-19 for the 2022 Catholic Leadership Summit, hosted by the National Catholic Educational Association. Founded in 1904, NCEA is the national voice for some 5,900 Catholic schools and 146,000 Catholic school educators serving nearly […]
Local
The Virginia Catholic Conference issued an alert Oct. 26 encouraging voters to reach out to their senators in support of bipartisan anti-trafficking legislation. After passing the U.S. House of Representatives this summer, the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 awaits consideration by the U.S. Senate. The legislation “will go a […]
Schools
Catholic schools outperform public school counterparts in almost all categories, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a biennial report of the U.S. Department of Education. Catholic school students performed at or near the top in reading and math compared to public schools coming out of the pandemic. NAEP, also known as the […]
Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? St. Joseph’s was founded in 1915 at the request of several black Catholics who wanted to worship God freely and be active members of the church but encountered discrimination in their own parishes. Priests and brothers of St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart, an interracial order also known as […]
Local
It’s time for the annual Herald Angel campaign to kick off. Nominate a volunteer who consistently goes above and beyond to help others, either on their own or for a Catholic non-profit in the Arlington diocese. The deadline is Nov. 30 to send us your nominations at [email protected]. You can also nominate someone on social […]
Local
“Gather at the Table: Multicultural Cooking for Liturgical Living,” an initiative of the diocesan multicultural office, is an international cookbook inviting readers to cook with the seasons and the liturgical calendar as part of Diocesan Golden Jubilee celebrations. The release date is planned for year three of the jubilee. The diocese is seeking family recipes […]
Local
The Knights of Columbus Arlington Council 2473 will deliver Thanksgiving dinners to those in need Nov. 24. The Knights are collection monetary donations to purchase food and asking for volunteers to prepare and deliver meals on Thanksgiving. Last year, the council fed 2,500 people. The Knights anticipate even more need this year due to the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
AWALI, Bahrain — Conflicts and evil in the world are all rooted in people rejecting God and their brothers and sisters, Pope Francis said to international Islamic scholars and experts. “Dear friends, brothers in Abraham and believers in the one God: Social, international, economic and individual evils, as well as the dramatic environmental crisis of […]
