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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” is a call for global action as well as an appeal for deep inner conversion. He points to numerous ways world organizations, nations and communities must move forward and the way individuals – believers and people of good will – should […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – The earth, which was created to support life and give praise to God, is crying out with pain because human activity is destroying it, Pope Francis says in his long-awaited encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” All who believe in God and all people of good will have an […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
“I was always very curious about their lives,” said Daughter of St. Paul Sister Laura Fidelis Nolin about her early encounters with religious sisters in Vermont. She grew up in Newport, a small town on Lake Memphremagog, close to the Canadian border. When she was 12, she took piano lessons from the sisters who served […]
Arts
By Agostino Bono | Catholic News Service
Although popes are first and foremost heads of the Catholic Church, political issues historically have rivaled spiritual ones as topics of concern. Even today, when a pope no longer holds temporal power, he still wields international influence as head of a respected transnational organization applying moral values to hot-button world situations. Even without political clout, […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
When Holy Spirit Church in Annandale was founded in 1964, Richmond Bishop John Russell could not have anticipated that the parish would become a gathering place for Eritrean refugees 50 years later. Eritrea separated from Ethiopia in 1991 following fighting that dated back to the 1960s. The country received international recognition of its independence in […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
The inexorable passage of time that any father faces is, well, humbling. Our children race through the days and years, and we wonder what sticks. But as anyone knows, we carry memories of our dads with us. Heaven knows why only a few moments – words, gestures, embraces – arise from the dross of time. […]
Local
By Stacy Rausch
“What’s that thing on your wrist?” I hear this question a lot in reference to the Fitbit Flex strapped to my wrist day and night. The Fitbit is a fitness tracker that does so much more than count your steps – like the small, less accurate pedometers you may have clipped to your waistband at […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Father Jose Eugenio Hoyos, director of Arlington’s Spanish Apostolate, attended “Called to Holiness for a New Evangelization,” the third worldwide priests’ retreat, June 9-12 at the Papal Archbasilica of St. John the Lateran in Rome, where clerics from five continents reflected upon the Charismatic Renewal and new evangelization. Speakers and celebrants included Pope Francis, the […]
Global
By Anto Akkara | Catholic News Service
BANGALORE, India – Not every bishop is a cartoonist. But Bishop Stephen Rotluanga of Aizawl in northeast India is. He has become known as the “cartoonist bishop of India.” That’s because at the end of every major gathering of the Indian bishops, Bishop Rotluanga would summarize the proceedings succinctly and strikingly in a large cartoon. […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In a benediction delivered at Normandy in France during events to mark the 71st anniversary of D-Day, a U.S. archbishop prayed that God would “help us never to forget the sacrifices of this place and to be energetic so that war is never renewed.” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of […]
