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By Beth Griffin
MARYKNOLL, N.Y. – Thirty-five years after they were murdered in El Salvador, four American churchwomen were remembered in their own eerily prescient and profoundly moving words. Colleagues and successors of the women gathered Dec. 2 for a vespers service at the headquarters of the Maryknoll Sisters. On Dec. 2, 1980, Salvadoran National Guardsman abducted, raped […]
Columns
By Beth Griffin
RYE, N.Y. – The secular world ignores Advent, begins celebrating Christmas the day after Halloween and packs up the holiday before the New Year, Paul J. Murray said. The director of music at a midtown Manhattan parish thought the Advent message was getting drowned out by the noise of commercialism, so he decided to make […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – When Pope Francis planned the Year of Mercy and the opening of the Holy Door, he did not mean to give the starting signal for a frenzied wave of pilgrims to Rome. More than a call to sign up for an Eternal City package tour, the pope is inviting people to strike […]
National
By Catholic News Service
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – San Bernardino Bishop Gerald R. Barnes urged people to pray for unity and healing after the mass shooting in San Bernardino Dec. 2 that left 14 people dead and 17 others wounded. “For those who lost their lives, we pray for their eternal rest and God’s strength to their loved ones […]
Local
By Maureen Pratt
Usually, people delivering cautionary news begin with, “Are you sitting down?” For the topic of this column, I’ll turn it around: “How often do you stand up? Or walk? Or do something besides sit?” My question is prompted by a newspaper headline from The Independent in the United Kingdom that read: “Each hour of sitting […]
Columns
By Thomas J. Craughwell
An entire book could be devoted just to the patrons of children. More saints have been assigned to watch over infants, little boys and girls, and adolescents than any other group, perhaps because they are the most vulnerable members of the human family.
The saint with the longest history as patron of children is St. Nicholas, the 4th-century bishop of Myra and one of the most popular saints of all time.
Local
By Anne Mathis
How do you honor and pay tribute to a humble priest and bishop who has served the church and countless numbers of people for 50 years? One way is to invite people to share their thoughts with him and honor him by ensuring that priestly vocations and caring for retired priests in the Arlington Diocese […]
National
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – Maureen Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine who has written about music icons, world leaders and Hollywood celebrities, tackled a completely different subject for National Geographic magazine: the Virgin Mary. For the magazine’s December cover story, “Mary the most powerful woman in the world,” Orth visited several countries and interviewed dozens […]
Local
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde served Thanksgiving dinner at Christ House in Alexandria Nov. 26 to more than 80 guests. All photos by Joe Cashwell for the Catholic Herald.
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Of all the things that Pope Francis has said and done during his still brief pontificate, his insistence that we extend mercy to others as God has shown mercy to us remains front and center. It is no wonder, then, that the Holy Father announced the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy that will begin Dec. 8, […]
