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RALLY drew diocesan teens for music, talks and prayer at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington Oct. 23. The annual event for high schoolers included adoration and Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge. During adoration, Bishop Burbidge told the teens to do three things: “Recall your many blessings. Say three times ‘Lord, be merciful […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is set to make a four-day visit to Bahrain, a journey that will make him the first pope to visit the Arab kingdom just off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. The visit Nov. 3-6 has two main goals: to speak at the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Let it never be said that the expression, “Out of sight, out of mind” describes our attitude toward the faithful departed. November is the special backdrop against which the church exhorts us to pray and sacrifice for the poor souls in purgatory. Yet, we realize that our serious duty to assist them as they make […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Archbishop Chaput shares his thoughts during the Diocesan Eucharistic Symposium.
National
By Richard Szczepanowski
WASHINGTON — Ten months after a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the Rosary Walk and Garden outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was vandalized and destroyed beyond repair, a replacement statue was blessed Oct. 23 by Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory. “We have gathered here in joy […]
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Parishes
By Ann M. Augherton
Trivia Night at St. James Church in Falls Church was a real test of faith. More than 150 people gathered Oct. 21 in groups of 8-10 with humorous team names including: Habemus Answers, 9 o’clock Massers, the Newshounds and Fish Fry Ladies. For the people who thought they knew the Catholic faith inside and out, […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Saying it is committed to “respectful dialogue” with China’s communist government and to “fostering the mission of the Catholic Church and the good of the Chinese people,” the Vatican announced it has renewed its agreement with China on the appointment of bishops. The “provisional agreement,” forged in 2018 and renewed in 2020, […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis encouraged Christian business leaders to form “a new alliance” with young people to learn and create together an economy for the common good. “Today, there are hundreds, thousands, millions and perhaps billions of young people who are struggling to access the formal economic systems or even to have access to […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — “Spiritual arrogance” — thinking one is holier or better than others — is a temptation everyone faces and is a form of self-worship, Pope Francis said. “Where there is too much ‘I,’ there is too little God,” the pope told an estimated 35,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 23 for […]
Bishop Burbidge
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed the studio at the chancery in Arlington Oct.13 in recognition of the 100th episode of “The Walk Humbly Podcast” and renamed it the St. Clare Studio. St. Clare of Assisi is the patron saint of television and the foundress of the Poor Clares religious order, Bishop Burbidge noted. “It’s providential […]
