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VATICAN CITY — Meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the importance of dialogue and his hopes for a just and lasting peace in the region.
This year, Christians around the world are celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, held in 325 A.D. We are celebrating this council for several reasons.
ROME — Celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception as the Jubilee Year was ending, Pope Leo XIV prayed that "Jubilee hope" would "blossom in Rome and in every corner of the earth," bringing with it reconciliation, nonviolence and peace.
He was handpicked by God the father to be the herald of the Messiah. He is the famed cousin who began his mission in the womb of Elizabeth. John is the last of the Old Testament prophets and first of the New Testament.
A week before Thanksgiving, seven sophomores from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington went to the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, hosted by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry Nov. 20-22.
The sun was setting by the time we’d reached consensus on our Christmas tree. We’d decided on a cedar that hadn’t been anyone’s first choice — safely neutral, conflict averted.
At their peak in the 1960s, 60 monks lived, prayed and worked together on the property that overlooks the Shenandoah River. In their prime, they baked and sold 20,000 of their world-famous fruitcakes. Now there are 12 monks and one postulant who make about 3,000 fruitcakes per year, but nothing has changed in their monastic life.
What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was preserved from every stain of Original Sin.
“Light one candle for peace, one bright candle for peace…” So begins our family’s celebration of Advent every year. The voices have matured, but the song and the prayer remain the same. Bring us peace.

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