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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — As the nation made preparations to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed gratitude for “the gift of immigrants and refugees to the country,” but also appealed for their protection. “As we do every year, we will pause this coming Thursday to thank God for the […]
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By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON — There’s little doubt among the church’s deep thinkers that renowned theologian Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray continues to shape Catholic social thought and interaction today, 50 years after his death. Beginning in the 1940s and through his death in 1967, his writings on religious freedom, birth control, church-state relations, Catholic engagement in […]
Columns
By Maria Pia Negro Chin
Poet John Milton is thought to have said, “Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” There are so many things for which to be grateful to God. What’s amazing is that once you start finding blessings, they […]
Columns
By Greg Erlandson
On Nov. 14, Kevin Janson Neal paced about a remote elementary school in the small Northern California community of Rancho Tehama Reserve, apparently looking for children to shoot during a killing spree that left five dead and at least 10 wounded in seven different locations. Thanks to the quick actions of a school secretary, […]
Columnists
By John Garvey
Richard Wilbur died last month. He was, Dana Gioia said, the finest poet of his generation and the greatest American Christian poet since Eliot. Here’s an example of why I liked him so much. It is part of a toast he gave at his eldest son’s wedding. (I recited it at the marriage of […]
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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) group has named Melissa Pore, a science teacher at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, to its U.S. Education Committee. Pore teaches engineering and technology at O’Connell. Previously, she was director of technology programs and a computer teacher at nearby St. Thomas More Cathedral School, where […]
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At the recent Arlington Diocesan Council meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP), the new board was installed for the 2017-20 term. Members of SVdP are called Vincentians and are part of a worldwide family of 1.5 million members. The new board members are President Christopher Disney, First Vice President Bob […]
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By Zoey Maraist
Msgr. Ray East reminded black Catholics to care for the poor in their midst at the annual Day of Reflection.
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By Elizabeth A. Elliott
Though rain and high winds forced most of the 40 students and adults inside during the fifth annual “Homeless for a Night” campout at Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria Nov. 18, it brought greater awareness to the problem of homelessness.
National
By Catholic News Service
DETROIT — Blessed Solanus Casey always said that “as long as there is a spark of faith,” there can be no discouragement or sorrow, said Cardinal Angelo Amato, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes. His words were accompanied by “the concrete practice of faith, hope and charity in his everyday life,” said the […]
