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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is revising its policies to no longer exclude houses of worship from applying for federal aid to recover from damages caused by natural disasters.
p class="Body">The Diocese of Arlington has a history of welcoming the stranger among us through the Migration and Refugee Office and Hogar Immigration Office of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, and through the assistance of parish ministries. I ask that you continue to support these ministries and all those that respect the dignity of the migrant, refugee and immigrant.
The annual game encourages friendships between seminarians and young men discerning the priesthood.
Throughout the month of January we are provided with special opportunities to bear witness to our belief in the dignity and value of all human life, especially the lives of the unborn. The most public display of the Gospel of Life is the annual March for Life. In advance, I thank all of our parishes that are welcoming visitors from other dioceses and providing hospitality to March for Life participants.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge spent two evenings during the first week of the new year dedicating altars at the new IHM convent near Bishop O'Connell high school in Arlington and St. Veronica Church in Chantilly.
I think there is no holiday we so look forward to and are so happy when it's over as Christmas.
God comes to me often in the darkness and reminds me of His love. I trust him and know that He has forgiven me, even though the system has not. Even in prison, He brings people into my life to encourage my spirit, so that I can live for Him and with the hope of pleasing Him somehow.
It may come as a surprise for some Catholics to learn that there is any limitation at all on the frequency with which a priest may celebrate Mass. The truth, however, is that for centuries the church has regulated that number — primarily, to ensure that the Eucharist is celebrated with the dignity and devotion it deserves.
An Arlington doctor has spent his career innovatively serving his patients and his community.
The beginning of a new year is an excellent opportunity to prune away the weeds so that the fruit can flower and then ripen. As a kindness to ourselves, we should pry away old hurts to which we stubbornly cling, but that ultimately weigh heavy on the branches and threaten their very existence. Let them go. Those old grievances are a blight.
