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By Zoey Di Mauro | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The crowd of people who will gather at Pope Francis’s open air Mass in Washington in September won’t be able to experience the interior beauty of the Basilica of the National Shine of the Immaculate Conception during the Mass. So the winning students of an altar design contest decided to bring the architecture […]
Pope Francis
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Anyone who has taken the wrong road in life can “turn back” and experience the mercy of Jesus, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of mostly young pilgrims about to set off on an overnight walk. Everyone has fallen and made mistakes, but is it important to “get up right away and […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – A sister from Ireland and a sister from New Zealand were rushed to a hospital in Rome June 8 after having spent a weekend trapped in an elevator without food or water. The 58-year-old Irish religious and the 68-year-old religious from New Zealand “are fine, but are not speaking to the press,” […]
Global
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Conflict and cruelty must be fought with tenderness, forgiveness and bearing Christ’s cross, Pope Francis said. Bosnia-Herzegovina has experienced “a history of cruelty” and one that is seen in many conflicts around the world today, the pope told a gathering of priests, religious and seminarians in Sarajevo’s cathedral June 6. The best […]
National
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – An Associated Press survey of abortion in the United States this decade has revealed that the number of abortions has gone down by 12 percent since 2010. The news was welcomed by pro-life advocates. “It’s important to realize, first of all, that the factors accounting for this are multiple, complex and often hard […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Whether you still stick to books or magazines or get everything online, Pope Francis said all media should encourage and edify – not enslave. “Back in my day – the Stone Age – when a book was good, you read it; when the book was bad for you, you chucked it,” he […]
Local
The Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective on Thursday, June 25, 2015, except where noted differently. Pastors Reverend Edward C. Hathaway – from Pastor of the Church of Saint Veronica in Chantilly to Pastor of the Church of Saint Mary in Alexandria. Reverend John D. Kelly […]
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By Julia Willis
After many years of study and vocational discernment rooted in faith, seven men were ordained to the priesthood and one man to the transitional diaconate by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde during a combined ordination Mass June 6 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. Hundreds of priests, deacons, seminarians, family members and […]
Movies
Unstable yet genuinely poignant romantic comedy about a military contractor (Bradley Cooper) with a checkered past who returns to Hawaii where his ex-girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) resides and where his billionaire boss (Bill Murray) is funding a mysterious space project for the U.S. government. When he falls in love with an Air Force captain (Emma Stone), […]
