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By Nate Madden
WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called same-sex marriage “the greatest social experiment of our time” and said that “children do not need experiments,” but rather the love of a mother and father at the third annual March for Marriage rally supporting traditional marriage on Capitol Hill. Addressing a crowd […]
Arts
By Fr. Larry Rice
As the weather turns warm with the coming of spring, many people are beginning to make plans for the coming gardening season. Most avid gardeners will tell you that they feel closer to God while working in their gardens than they do anywhere else. Planting, weeding, pruning, weeding, mulching, weeding, harvesting, and weeding are all […]
Movies
By John Mulderig
NEW YORK – Religious values and a gentle sensibility pervade the family-friendly drama “Little Boy” (Open Road). Yet, while suitable for a wide audience, director Alejandro Monteverde’s good-hearted, nostalgic parable, set in 1940s coastal California, is not without its occasional aesthetic lapses. At its best, this tale of an undersized, bullied lad named Pepper (Jakob […]
Local
Spring daffodils welcome parishioners of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Colonial Beach on a recent Saturday afternoon. Only the second church to be opened on Virginia’s Northern Neck, St. Elizabeth was founded in 1905. Fr. Francis M. de Rosa is pastor of the parish.
Local
By Christine Stoddard
When you see women wearing saris at a Catholic Mass, you might think they are Hindus visiting with Catholic friends. But on a sunny April afternoon at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Centreville, families filling the pews were Catholics, not Hindus. “You are a beloved one of God,” said Father Tijo Joy Mullakkara, a Syro-Malabar […]
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By Christine Stoddard
When you see women wearing saris at a Catholic Mass, you might think they are visiting with Catholic friends. But on a sunny April afternoon at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Centreville, families filling the pews were Catholics, not Hindus. “You are a beloved one of God,” said Father Tijo Joy Mullakkara, a Syro-Malabar Catholic […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Is it time to revive Catholic triumphalism? On the whole, I’d say yes. At the very least, the question isn’t frivolous and deserves serious consideration. For after several decades during which Catholics have offered repeated apologies for a host of mistakes, sometimes real and sometimes imaginary, the feeling grows that a comparable effort devoted to […]
Arts
Al Pacino plays the aging rock star of the title in writer-director Dan Fogelman’s flat, vaguely fact-based blend of comedy and drama. Bereft at his failure to live up to the model of a true artist, a dereliction highlighted by the belated arrival of a 40-year-old letter to him penned by ex-Beatle John Lennon, the […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
In 1956, a struggling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus made a shift in venues from tents to arenas that gave new life and popularity to “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Even today with competition from cable TV and the Internet, the show is still a draw. Moving three touring units (Red, Blue and […]
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The Ecumenical Scripture Workshop, sponsored annually by the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston (W.Va.) for more than 40 years, will be held at the Priest Field Pastoral Center in Kearneysville, W.Va., June 22-26. The center is located on the northeastern border of the state, about 90 minutes from Baltimore and Washington. Robert Miller from Catholic University in […]
