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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – As a mid-March deadline approaches for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make a decision on whether to make a declaration of genocide in the Middle East, the Knights of Columbus, based in New Haven, Conn., and the Washington-based group In Defense of Christians have mounted a petition campaign asking Kerry to […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Ranger Guide Kelly Dobson recently instructed boys in his Rangers group at St. Veronica Church in Chantilly how to dispose of blessed palms as part of a service project. The ashes from the palms will be used next year during St. Veronica’s Ash Wednesday Mass. The Rangers respectfully placed folded palms in the fire Monday […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In the second of his “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation center. To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort at the San Carlo Community Feb. 26 with just […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Olympic track and field legend Jesse Owens (Stephan James) is the focus of this entertaining film, chronicling Owens’ journey to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, where he won four gold medals and, as an African American, single-handedly dealt a devastating blow to Nazism and its belief in Aryan supremacy. Owens is discovered by his […]
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Parishioners at St. Katharine Drexel Mission celebrated their patron saint’s feast day Feb. 28.
Movies
By Catholic News Service
This agreeably picturesque love story features likable characters who briefly consider the morality of at least some of their decisions. But it’s so intractably bland, as it strains not to offend, that its plot points lack all emotional tug. Director Ross Katz and screenwriter Bryan Sipe, adapting the 2007 novel by Catholic author Nicholas Sparks, […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Speculation and trial balloons floating lately over the Vatican walls suggest that Pope Francis wants to open up a discussion of married priests in the church. According to reports, this will be the topic of the next world Synod of Bishops in a couple of years. Yes, I know the church already has some married […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Cops honest and otherwise clash with Russian mobsters on the mean streets of Atlanta in this extremely violent thriller directed by John Hillcoat. A mafia moll (Kate Winslet) blackmails corrupt officers (most prominently Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anthony Mackie) into carrying out a bank robbery, hoping to free her jailed lover back in Moscow. But a […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
A Catholic Navy SEAL with a strong devotion to St. Michael the Archangel was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama at the White House Feb. 29. The 36-year-old Ohio native, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Edward C. Byers Jr., rescued a civilian hostage in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan in December […]
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