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The remains of St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, will be transferred from the crypt under the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the congregation's Bensalem motherhouse, in the coming weeks to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge opened the five-day Quo Vadis Summer Discernment Camp by celebrating Mass in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., July 29.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the College of Cardinals of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, and has ordered him to maintain "a life of prayer and penance" until a canonical trial examines accusations that he sexually abused minors.
Trading their albs for T-shirts and shorts on the first sunny day in a week, diocesan altar servers attended the annual altar server picnic at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston July 26.
A Paulist priest is honored as the Pastoral Musician of the Year.
The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See told a Washington audience July 24 that "promoting and securing religious freedom as a human right is a shared priority" of the Vatican and the United States.
Seventy-seven middle-school students spent two hours picking corn for the poor at Chandler Farms in Montross and Parker Farms in Colonial Beach.
Kelly Dalton has been named founding director of the Saints’ Center for Service at Marymount University in Arlington, which opens with the fall semester to support, promote and coordinate service opportunities across campus.
The numbers don’t look good for the U.S. Postal Service.
In the half-century since Pope Paul VI published his encyclical, “Humanae Vitae,” reaffirming that contraception is always wrong, opponents of the teaching frequently have focused on “reception” and “sensus fidelium”— the sense of the faithful.
