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By Dave Borowski
Colin Davis didn’t come from a religious family. Born May 28, 1982, in Southern California to Todd and Cindy Davis, he was not baptized as his parents were both non-practicing Catholics. In 1992, his father was having some business problems when, on a whim, he went into a Catholic church. “I don’t know why he […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Since childhood, Deacon Dort Bigg dreamed of becoming a professional violinist. “But God had a different plan,” said Deacon Bigg, who studied at The Julliard School in New York after graduating from DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md., in 2001. A medical condition delayed his graduation by two years. During that time, he said he […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Deacon Kevin Dansereau wasn’t intent on taking an office job straight out of college. After graduating with a degree in technical and scientific communications from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, he applied for the Peace Corps. But it wasn’t until he arrived in a rural town in Niger that he learned his assignment would involve […]
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By Catholic News Service
BETHESDA, Md. – Beau Biden, a Catholic who was former attorney general of Delaware and the oldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, died May 30 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda of brain cancer. He was 46. In a statement posted on the younger Biden’s website, the family said: “It is […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
In 1894, the Benedictine Sisters of Richmond received a great gift. In fact the offering was so large that they had to travel more than 100 miles to claim it. When they arrived in Bristow, they were greeted by acres of beautiful Virginia countryside known as Linton’s Ford, a great expanse of land given to […]
Pope Francis
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The road to salvation may be pitted with failures, but God uses them and overturns them to manifest his love for his people, said Pope Francis. Reflecting on the parable of the wicked tenants in the Gospel of Mark during morning Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae June 1, the pope said […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A newly dedicated bas-relief sculpture at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington portrays Mary calming the troubled sea, with the North Star above her head. The image of Our Lady Star of the Sea “will become a point of spiritual pilgrimage for the people of the sea” […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Sometimes, Pope Francis said, the most important thing parents of a seriously ill child can do is to keep asking God, “Why?” A child of 2 or 3 years will torment his or her parents with a continual series of “whys,” the pope said. The little ones are not looking for answers […]
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By Catholic News Service
LINCOLN, Neb. – Nebraska state senators overrode Gov. Pete Ricketts’ veto of a bill repealing capital punishment that had been supported by the state’s Catholic bishops. In a 30-19 vote May 27, the senators supported a bill that replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole. The bill had gained […]
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By Mark Zimmermann | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl has issued a new pastoral letter “about who we are as Catholics.” “We will reflect on our identity as disciples of Jesus – followers of Christ – adopted children of God,” he notes in the introduction. A key part of the pastoral looks at “our freedom to be […]
