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By Ashleigh Buyers
Hundreds of handmade crafts and holiday items attracted shoppers to the annual Holiday Express boutique and craft sale at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax Station Nov. 14.
National
By Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – The head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration said he was disturbed by calls from federal and state officials for an end to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States. “These refugees are fleeing terror themselves – violence like we have witnessed in Paris,” said Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
The door to Deacon David Conroy’s office at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale is covered with yellow sticky-notes and cut-out leaves posted by students with mostly inside and cryptic jokes shared by student and professor. “I’m getting nervous,” said one, and “1 2 3 pumpkin,” was another. Others are more personal. “We love you,” […]
Local
By Katie Scott
Like the rays emanating from the star-sprinkled blue veil of her beloved Our Lady of Guadalupe, Rosa Colello’s faith always has extended outward into the world. Cultivated in front of a homemade altar to the patroness of Mexico and by her immigrant parents, her love of God fueled a career serving public schoolchildren. “My parents […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
On the way to soccer practice tonight, my son found four radio stations playing Christmas music. As I write this column, it is exactly two weeks until Thanksgiving. When you read it, the official beginning of the holiday season will be one week away. Those dates on the calendar bring smiles to many people. They […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – As the Catholic Church’s liturgical year draws to a close, Catholics are reminded that the source of all beauty and the final destiny of all things lie in God, Pope Francis said. Celebrating an early morning Mass Nov. 13, Pope Francis noted how the readings at Mass turn more and more to […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
Workers move a newly refinished pew into the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington Nov. 13. The reinstallation of the pews brings the cathedral one step closer to completion of its renovations. Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde is scheduled to open the Holy Door for the Year of Mercy at the cathedral Dec. 13.
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Holiness is a life lived in faith and the ability to recognize how very close God is to each person, Pope Francis said. Pope Francis, who began but never finished a doctorate based on the writings of Father Romano Guardini, encouraged the Berlin-based foundation named for the philosopher to promote dialogue based […]
Global
By Doreen Abi Raad
BEIRUT – When a man dressed head-to-toe in black entered the room where Father Jacques Mourad was being held by the Islamic State, the Syriac Catholic priest thought his time to become a martyr had come. “That moment was really intense and difficult,” he recalled. It was eight days after Father Mourad’s May abduction by […]
National
By Cori Fugere Urban
WESTFIELD, Vt. – It’s generally quiet in the altar bread department at the Monastery of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Westfield as Benedictine nuns in their full habits covered with smocks produce thousands of hosts to be consecrated and distributed to Catholics at the Eucharist. In keeping with the contemplative lifestyle of their order, […]
