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WASHINGTON -- The Archdiocese of Washington and its Catholic Schools Office hailed the Aug. 3 emergency order by Maryland's governor to override a Montgomery County Health Department blanket directive that would have kept nonpublic schools from reopening for in-person instruction through at least Oct. 1.
WASHINGTON -- An omnibus appropriations bill approved by the House July 31 to fund a dozen federal departments and agencies blocks a conscience protection rule for health care providers who do not want to participate in abortion, sterilization or assisted suicide on religious or moral grounds.
Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointment:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- After her mother died in 1990, Missy Bartlett, a Louisville theology teacher and lover of puzzles, came across her mother's homemade crossword puzzles.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask, "We were taking precautions."
VATICAN CITY -- An author with a long and close relationship to retired Pope Benedict XVI told a German newspaper that the 93-year-old retired pope is "extremely frail."
In a moving prayer service titled “Requiem for the Black Children of God,” Bishop Michael F. Burbidge called on Catholics to “find the courage to no longer be silent” about racism, but to speak out, and make “the example of our lives reflect reverence for the sacredness of each and every human life.”
Parishioners at Church of the Nativity in Burke contributed 12,584 pounds of food to the St. Lucy Food Project July 24 in what the parish called its biggest food drive of the year.
An anniversary is “not primarily about the past, it’s about the future,” said Msgr. Stanley J. Krempa July 28 in his homily for the Mass celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Winchester.
On earth as it is in heaven
Pay attention to Jesus’ eyes in this Sunday’s Gospel. What does he see? Where does he look?