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VATICAN CITY — While protocols to slow the COVID-19 pandemic have silenced many concert halls and restricted the use of congregational singing in many churches, Pope Francis prayed that musicians were using this time to listen.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis' ongoing efforts to promote interreligious dialogue will be highlighted in a new series of Vatican stamps.
Each Lent we devote ourselves to prayer, fasting and almsgiving in order to prepare for the renewal of our baptismal promises at Easter and to reflect upon times when we fell short of our obligation to live in virtue. This Lenten season provides the unique opportunity to do so, as Pope Francis proclaimed 2021 to be the Year of St. Joseph, the protector of Jesus. In this year, the church has called us to imitate St. Joseph’s virtues and zeal, and thus we receive abundant graces and encourage one another by our words and deeds.
VATICAN CITY — The liturgy is not a spectacle to be observed but a prayerful event where Christians encounter Christ's presence in their lives, Pope Francis said.
VATICAN CITY — Many Catholics look at religious orders of men or women and wonder what their vow of poverty means. After all, the brothers, priests and nuns run schools and hospitals, have large convents or abbeys and they all pretty much know where their next meal will come from.
What would lead someone to forgo the possibility of having a family and career to serve Christ in total devotion, obedience and even poverty?
St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington inducted 28 seventh and eighth graders into the National Junior Honor Society at the cathedral Jan. 19. A candlelit ceremony marked the inaugural event for the newly established chapter, which aims to create enthusiasm for the values of scholarship, service, leadership, character and citizenship.
The girls and boys swim teams from St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly won first and second at the 11th annual Northern Virginia Catholic Invitational Championship at the Freedom Center in Manassas Jan. 16. Paul VI competed against Seton School in Manassas, St. Gertrude High School in Richmond, Oakcrest School in Vienna, and Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores.
Community members of St. Ambrose School in Annandale gathered around their home computers for an evening of online trivia modeled after the popular game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” Jan. 22.
The devil’s use of half truths
The Gospel for this Sunday presents us with a flurry of activity, set at the beginning of Christ’s public life. In the space of a few lines, the Lord Jesus has healed Simon’s mother-in-law, healed the diseases of the crowd, cast out many demons, gone to spend the night in prayer, been pursued by the whole town and gone on to preach elsewhere. We see here the dynamism and urgency of the love he bears toward the people of Galilee and, through them, toward us as well. Yet there are strange things tucked away in this continuous stream of ministry, and we would do well not to miss them.