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By Kevin Schweers
The Catholic Herald launched a new website March 9 at catholicherald.com, and I invite you to take a look. This marks the first significant redesign of our publication’s primary online presence in five years. In undertaking it, we sought to preserve what worked well in the previous website — such as prioritizing local Catholic news […]
Local
Parishes
By Leslie Miller
The Arlington diocese has begun holding listening sessions at parishes and schools to hear the views of Catholics — both active and inactive — on how the church is journeying together to fulfill its mission in the world.
Local
By Ann M. Augherton
The Alexandria City Council scrapped plans to designate March 10 as Abortion Provider Appreciation Day, following protests from Catholics in the Arlington diocese. As part of its March 8 meeting, the council had planned to consider proclaiming the day as one to “celebrate the courage, compassion, and the high-quality care that abortion providers and clinic […]
Local
Parishes
By Leslie Miller
The opportunity to view, touch and venerate the sacred relics of 165 well-known saints drew hundreds of people to St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax March 5.
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Amid the developing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ international policy committee urged the U.S. government “to provide all possible assistance to the people of Ukraine and to work closely with faith-based partners who are already on the ground providing emergency aid.” Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, Ill., […]
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Parishes
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Eat-in Lenten fish frys and soup suppers made a comeback at many parishes on the first Friday of Lent this year, after a hiatus during the pandemic. Most will continue on Fridays through April 8.
Global
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Temptation’s seductive proposals of happiness and freedom can lead one to being enslaved by the desire to possess material things and other people, Pope Francis said. Christians are called to respond to temptation with the “word of God, which says not to take advantage, not to use God, others and things for […]
National
By Catholic News Service
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Catholic bishops of Florida praised the state Legislature for passing a measure to prohibit most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. H.B. 5 also includes provisions to improve infant health and analyze and reduce fetal and infant mortality. “While we continue to look forward to the day when the full protection […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Italian Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, a former nuncio to the United States and the retired head of the Vatican investment office, died March 5 at the age of 95. The longtime Vatican diplomat served in Washington as nuncio to the United States and Vatican representative to the Organization of American States from 1990 […]
National
By Catholic News Service
BETHESDA, Md. — With war raging in Ukraine, "the call for a return to the Lord is urgent," the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said during a noon Ash Wednesday Mass he celebrated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the Washington suburb of Bethesda.
