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By Mary Beth Bonacci
How did we ever live without Netflix? I work out on my treadmill in the mornings. And now, thanks to the the iPad and the wonders of online entertainment streaming, I can binge-watch TV shows while I’m exercising. My current binge is “Friday Night Lights.” It’s a good show about high school football in a […]
Movies
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper said the Oscar-winning film, “Spotlight,” is not anti-Catholic. “It is not an anti-Catholic movie, as has been written, because the film succeeds in giving voice to the alarm and deep pain” experienced by the Catholic faithful when a team of investigative newspaper reporters in Boston revealed the scandal of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Simon Newman, president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, resigned from his post Feb. 29 and the university’s board of trustees named the dean of the business school to be acting president. Newman faced mounting criticism over language he used to describe struggling freshmen and for the way he handled the […]
National
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA – “Two Irishmen and a nun entered a bar…” What’s the punchline? There isn’t one because this is no joke, but rather a new Catholic outreach effort of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that has taken firm root in a former bar in a tough section of the city. The two Irishmen are Father Joseph […]
Pope Francis
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 […]
Local
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
This year the Catholic Herald turned 40, February is Catholic Press Month and last week we reached 10,000 followers on Twitter. Clearly, it’s time to celebrate. Enter our contest below and on Monday, Feb. 29, we’ll select one lucky winner to take home this Pope Francis plush doll. Be sure to subscribe to our email […]
Schools
Last month’s Greek Fair at St. Ambrose School in Annandale brought “gods and goddesses” to life. Each sixth-grader chose a Greek deity to research and created a museum display that included a tri-fold board and other props. Students visited the displays and, when they found one they wanted to learn more about, could press a […]
Local
Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl will give the opening address for “The New Evangelization and Higher Education: The Vision and Pope Francis,” a conference at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., May 23-25. The conference will explore such topics as social media and the new evangelization, campus ministry and missionary discipleship and public universities. Cardinal […]
Local
Christendom College in Front Royal recently was ranked by news media organization NewsMax No. 2 out of 40 “Best Colleges for Conservative Values” in America. Hillsdale College in Michigan took top honors, and Franciscan University of Steubenville was ranked No. 8. “We’ve been standing for traditional, conservative values since our founding – it’s part of […]
