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By Christine Stoddard
According to University of Virginia Sociology Professor and National Marriage Project Director W. Bradford Wilcox, instead of teaching children and teens that adult happiness lies in education and career success, we should encourage them to find meaning and purpose in marriage and family first. Wilcox was speaking at “Why Marriage (Still) Matters,” an Aug. 8 […]
Global
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA – It is a general custom at the annual Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus that the head of the diocese or archdiocese where the convention is held celebrates the opening Mass. This year in Philadelphia for the Aug. 4-6 convention the Knights got a twofer, because Philadelphia happens to have two sitting […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
I realize that, in polite society, it is considered hyperbolic and disrespectful and just downright bad form to compare any of our current social evils to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. Whatever misdeeds we in America may commit, they cannot possibly compare to the horrifying evil that Hitler and his minions inflicted on Europe before […]
Local
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Parishioners at All Saints Church in Manassas commemorated the feast of the Divine Savior of the World with a procession, rosary and music following the 1:30 p.m. Spanish Mass Aug. 9. El Salvador, which means “the Savior,” is named after Divino Salvador del Mundo. His feast is a national holiday. Many Masses are celebrated throughout […]
National
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — As lecterns go, it is strictly utilitarian, a simple walnut stand with none of the ornamentation commonly found in mid-19th-century furnishings. Yet it has a distinguished past and is about to have a distinguished future. At a news conference Aug. 7 at the Union League of Philadelphia, Robert Ciaruffoli, president of the […]
Arts
By Lyndsey Raynor
Arena Stage in Washington beautifully presents an exceptional production about what it is like to be a teenager with mental health issues, in a new musical, tackling depression, anxiety and suicide. “Dear Evan Hansen” is a modern, untraditional drama providing a real life lesson about the effect of our actions on family and friends, while […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Paul Inwood and 89 other composers around the world had two months to submit their compositions of the music for the official hymn of Year of Mercy. Inwood, a British composer whose work is a staple of many parish liturgies across North America, said he learned in June that his music […]
National
By Lou Baldwin | Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA – Approximately 2,000 members of the Knights of Columbus from around the country and abroad gathered Aug. 4 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia to open the Catholic fraternal organization’s 133rd Supreme Convention. The theme for the three-day convention was “Endowed by Their Creator with Life and Liberty,” paraphrasing the famous words penned […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Today, it has often been said that most Catholics have already made up their minds about contraception. Either one believes, as the Catholic Church does, that contraception is intrinsically evil and, therefore, must not be practiced or one believes that contraception is permissible, given, among other reasons, the diverse economic, political and societal pressures that […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics who have divorced and are civilly remarried “are not, in fact, excommunicated — they are not excommunicated — and they absolutely must not be treated as if they were,” Pope Francis said. Resuming his Wednesday general audiences Aug. 5 after a month’s break, Pope Francis returned to the series of […]
