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A series of programs aimed at healing divisions will examine historical inequities and unconscious attitudes. 

Arlington Knights of Columbus have met daily since April to ask Our Lady’s intercession to end to the pandemic.  

More than 40 women religious gathered at St. James Church in Falls Church for the Convocation of Religious Sisters Aug. 29

For Poppy Sellier, bringing face masks to school isn’t unusual. While many children are adapting to the use of face coverings as they return to class this fall, Poppy first packed them  — along with the standard back-to-school supplies of notebooks and pencils — when she set out for first grade at Our Lady of Hope School in Potomac Falls last fall. Only a few weeks before, she had completed chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia, diagnosed the previous December. The Catholic Herald ran a story about her journey from cancer to recovery in August 2019.

WASHINGTON -- In a class within an anti-racism course at the University of Notre Dame, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory spoke in a teleconference call to students, faculty and alumni about the moral imperative of opposing racism.

WASHINGTON -- John Thompson, the Hall of Fame college basketball coach who guided Georgetown University in Washington to a national championship in 1984, died Aug. 31 at age 78. No cause of death was given.

VATICAN CITY -- When he addresses, via video message, the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 15, Pope Francis is expected to speak about using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to rethink economic, political and environmental policies in a way that will benefit humanity and the earth.

NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Aug. 20 to rename Jefferson Davis Parkway, which since 1911 had paid homage to the slaveholding president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, in honor of Norman C. Francis, who served for nearly a half-century as president of Xavier University of Louisiana.

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