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By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
Since 1974, thousands of people have attended the March for Life in Washington every year in January. Founded by Nellie Gray, the March began as a small demonstration in 1974, one year after the Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade decision. It soon became the world’s largest pro-life event, bearing witness to the […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — The Jesuits at the Vatican Observatory were wowed like most people by the beauty of the photos from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but the director said they also are excited by the scientific information the telescope will reveal. “Such images are a necessary food for the human spirit — we do […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
HONG KONG — An elderly Catholic missionary in Hong Kong has launched a three-day hunger strike outside a high-security prison demanding the release of politicians and activists incarcerated under the city’s Beijing-imposed controversial national security law. Father Franco Mella, 74, a member of the Milan-based Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions, has vowed to abstain from […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
Donning colorful T-shirts from their home parishes across the diocese, dozens of young men and women joined parish priests, deacons and seminarians in the ‘Battle of the Altar Servers’ at St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax July 8, a picnic and sports tournament to celebrate the youths’ faithful service at Masses. While Knights of […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness. In an early July interview, he acknowledged the “cruel way” the Catholic Church collaborated with the Canadian government in “colonization” by uprooting Indigenous children from their families, cultures and spiritualities and forcing […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Religious orders must never tolerate the abuse of children or vulnerable persons, and they must end the practice of moving alleged abusers to other countries, Pope Francis said. Departing from his prepared remarks during a July 14 meeting with members of three religious congregations — the Order of the Mother of God, […]
National
By Colleen Rowan
SHADY SPRING, W.Va. — More than two weeks after a 145-year-old Catholic church near Shady Spring was destroyed by fire, law enforcement officials announced July 12 that two suspects were arrested and charged with felonies for a blaze officials confirmed was arson. St. Colman Church was built on Irish Mountain in the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese in […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Any Catholic who participates in the celebration July 24 of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly can receive a plenary indulgence, the Vatican announced. “Grandparents, the elderly and all the faithful who, motivated by a true spirit of penance and charity,” attend Mass or other prayer services for the occasion […]
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