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My granddaughter Charlotte posed for the traditional first day of kindergarten photo on the front porch of her home in New Jersey, wearing a new sequined-splattered outfit popular with the under-7 set.
JERUSALEM -- Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed astonishment that a large group of evangelical Christians from the U.S. received visas to come to Israel to help with the grape harvest in West Bank settlements, while Catholic institutions have not been able to obtain Israeli visas for their volunteers and staff members because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
VATICAN CITY -- With so much conflict, violence and war, the world needs people who are specially prepared to bring Gospel values to social, political and economic situations, Pope Francis said.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge released his new pastoral letter, “In Tongues All Can Hear: Communicating the Hope of Christ in Times of Trial,” Sept. 14.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge expressed “profound gratitude” to first responders and those serving in the military at the 5th Annual Mass for Military and First Responders Sept. 13 at St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax.
VATICAN CITY -- Expressing his concern about demonstrations taking place in many countries around the world, Pope Francis appealed for nonviolence, dialogue and the guarantee of civil rights.
RYE, N.Y. -- The Catholic Church in Lebanon plays a leading role in shaping public opinion in that troubled country because it is free and speaks the truth, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, told an internet audience Sept. 10.
A Mass for permanent deacons and their families was celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington Sept. 12. Father Paul D. Scalia, episcopal vicar for clergy, and Father Patrick L. Posey, rector, concelebrated.
As he did with 2010's "Inception" and "Interstellar" (2014), writer-director Christopher Nolan serves up a cerebral thriller, a blockbuster accompanied by a heavy-handed science lesson — in this case about temporal mechanics and the possibility of time travel.
Of the numerous film adaptations of Charles Dickens' autobiographical 1850 novel, this may rank as the happiest. As directed by Armando Ianucci, who adapted the screenplay with Simon Blackwell, the movie finds Copperfield (Ranveer Jaiswal and Jairaj Varsani as a boy, Dev Patel as a man) facing life's challenges, which include child labor, rocky romances, financial instability and duplicitous colleagues, with a hero's grace and the joy of a secular saint.
