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The nine justices of the Supreme Court began work in earnest Dec. 1 on what already looks to be the court’s most closely watched — and probably most controversial — ruling in nearly half a century.
It’s been quite a fall: a totaled car, a flooded house, a serious infection, the death of my father, an eye injury that resulted in emergency surgery, and some things I’m still holding close and private. Quite a fall. On the second Sunday of Advent, we will travel home from my father’s funeral. I’m still not sure I understand the delay but delayed it was, and so we will live in a weird spiritual and temporal suspension until we return home again.
VATICAN CITY — St. Joseph teaches people to learn to take life as it comes and to accept what God has in mind, Pope Francis said.
Josephite Father John A. Carroll, former pastor of St. Joseph Church in Alexandria, died Nov. 20 at the Josephite Senior Residence in Washington at age 84.
Before there were any buildings in Rockefeller Center, there was a Christmas tree.
What’s distinctive about your parish? What is your parish’s charism? Our parish is oriented toward service to the poor.
WASHINGTON —When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Dec. 1 for the biggest abortion case in decades, all eyes — and ears — will be on the court.
BEIRUT — The Lebanese designer for Pope Francis' vestments for Mass in Cyprus chose simple fabric and symbols that figure prominently in the island nation.
Paving the way
Residents of Northern Virginia are well acquainted with roadwork. Be it on I-66 or the Beltway, we all know that road improvements (widening, repaving, straightening) often make it easier to get around, but just as often can seem like a perpetual project requiring major life changes. Thus, we have a keen insight into John the Baptist’s message in our Gospel today. In Luke 3:1-6, we find John filled with the word of God, crying out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord”and “make straight a highway in the desert for our God.”