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By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — When a political prisoner and nearly 300 others were shipwrecked along the coast of Malta, the local population welcomed them, built a fire to warm their chilled bones and provided them with food and shelter. The story of migrants in dire need as they attempt to cross the sea sounds like a […]
Books
By Nancy L. Roberts
“Jesus Christ Movie Star” by Phil Hall. BearManor Media (Orlando, Florida, 2021). 163 pp., $22. The life story of Jesus Christ has fascinated filmmakers for more than 100 years. It’s not surprising that more movies have been made about Jesus than about any other subject, but the variation among these portrayals is stunning. We see […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Friday abstinence for vegans What do persons who don’t normally eat meat do about the church’s rules on abstinence, such as on the Fridays during Lent? Nowadays, many Catholics are mainly fish eaters anyway, or they are vegans or vegetarians. What can they do to participate in the discipline of the church? (New Middletown, Ind.) […]
Parishes
By Catholic Herald
What’s distinctive about your parish? What is your parish’s charism? A distinctive feature of our parish is its small, warm, friendly and spiritually welcoming feeling. Parishioners are very generous in providing for the needs of others. There is a food pantry stocked with donations from parishioners. The Outreach store is volunteer run with profits given […]
Local
By Special To The Catholic Herald
The annual Mass and Anointing of the Sick, hosted by the Order of Malta’s Northern Virginia Region, drew more than 200 people to the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington March 20,
Columns
By Catholic Herald
Daily Lenten reflections to transform your family. Challenge: Today, try and use your words for only good. Stop if you find yourself saying something negative or judgmental. Reflection: (Bearing all things) implies limiting judgment, checking the impulse to issue a firm and ruthless condemnation: “Judge not and you will not be judged” (Lk 6:37). Although […]
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By Paul H. Rhee
I knelt in awe before Jesus in the monstrance. It was finally 5 p.m., I’d finished all my classes for the day and it was time for adoration. I went to my seat in the chapel and knelt down in my pew as one of the faculty priests exposed Our Lord in the monstrance and […]
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By Philip D. Briggs
A few days after Christmas, my cell phone went off. Not because it was ringing, nor was I receiving a notification or a text. It was going off because I was powering it down. As I began an eight-day silent retreat in Texas, all electronic devices were being turned off, preparing me for the coming […]
Local
By Meghan Bartlett
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Mass on the feast of the Annunciation March 25 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. After Communion, he knelt before the altar and recited an act of consecration of Russia, Ukraine and all of humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in union with Pope Francis in […]
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