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By Leslie Miller
In times of isolation, loneliness and fear, we must reach out “and wash the feet of one another,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper April 14 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. The Holy Thursday evening Mass, which marks the start of the sacred Triduum, commemorates […]
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By Special To The Catholic Herald
Across the Arlington diocese, more than 160 adults will be welcomed into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil Masses April 16, the diocese said in a statement. The hourslong vigil Mass begins with the blessing and lighting of the Paschal candle symbolizing the light of Christ. Following Mass, the more than 160 initiates will have […]
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By Mary M. Shaffrey
For the first time in three years, priests, deacons and Catholics from throughout the diocese filled the Cathedral of St. Thomas More for the April 14 Chrism Mass, traditionally celebrated on Holy Thursday by the bishop.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Before washing the feet of 12 inmates, Pope Francis told them and other prisoners that God never tires of forgiving anyone who asks. When Jesus washed his disciples’ feet, including the feet of Judas, who would betray him, it was a sign that God will wait patiently for everyone and will forgive […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — For Lydia Korostelova, Russia’s brutal invasion of her native Ukraine has hit home in ways she could never have imagined. “People are leaving their homes, leaving everything behind,” she said of her hometown of Huliaipole in eastern Ukraine during an April 7 panel discussion at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — To wage war, which marks a failure of politics and humanity, is to surrender to the forces of evil, Pope Francis wrote in a new book. “War is not the solution, war is madness, war is a monster, war is a cancer that feeds off itself, engulfing everything!” he wrote. And, he […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has appointed Stanley B. Prusiner, an American neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, and Zeresenay Alemseged, an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossilized remains of the “world’s oldest child,” to be members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The pope also appointed Emilce Cuda, an Argentine theologian and secretary […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Jesus brings peace to today’s shattered world through meekness and not through an “armed peace” that seeks to subjugate others, Pope Francis said. During his weekly general audience April 13, the pope said that the war in Ukraine, “like every war, represents an outrage against God, a blasphemous betrayal of the Lord […]
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By Joseph P. Owens
ABOARD THE STAR TRUST — Moments after Bishop William E. Koenig of Wilmington, Delaware, completed his first Mass on a refrigerated ocean cargo ship on the Delaware coast, he chatted with a group of Filipino crewmen who were attending Mass together for the first time in months. “What’s your favorite port,” he asked the 20 […]
Movies
By John Mulderig
NEW YORK — Positive priest characters are certainly a rarity in contemporary films. So, Catholics will welcome the uplifting fact-based biography “Father Stu” (Columbia). While deeply moving, however, this dramatization of the life of Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) is also hard-edged, particularly in terms of its dialogue. Yet that’s part of the point. The movie […]
