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The Knights of Columbus St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Council No. 8183 in Woodbridge was awarded the distinction of Star Council, the international organization’s top honor for local councils. The award recognizes overall excellence in the areas of growing membership, sponsoring Catholic faith formation programs and volunteering through service-oriented activities. The council sponsored activities based on […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Thanking a group of European lawyers for their attention to environmental protection laws, Pope Francis said he was preparing another document on the subject. “I am writing a second part to Laudato Si’ to update it on current problems,” the pope told the lawyers Aug. 21 during a meeting in the library […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Dorothy Day was “a great witness to faith, hope and charity in the 20th century,” a woman who loved the Catholic Church despite the flaws of its members and who knew that serving God meant serving the poor and working for justice, Pope Francis wrote. “The way in which Dorothy Day tells […]
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Earlier this month, devastating wildfires swept through Maui, Hawaii. The fires demolished much of the historic town of Lahaina and the death toll is at 115 and expected to rise. Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva sent a letter to dioceses throughout the United States Aug. 11. He petitioned the faithful to consider donating to the Hawaiian […]
National
By Jonah McKeown
A Catholic family visiting Hawaii from California barely escaped with their lives after being trapped for a time by the recent deadly wildfires on Maui in what they said was a “nightmare” experience. As of Aug. 17, 111 people were confirmed dead on Maui, with the death toll expected to rise, after fast-moving wildfires ripped […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis continually calls Catholics to go to the “peripheries,” and that is exactly what he will do Aug. 31 when he boards a plane to Mongolia. Bordering both Russia and China, Mongolia is one of the few countries St. John Paul II did not manage to visit, although plans were well […]
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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Mass for the feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation, at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Burke Hall in Arlington Aug. 15. “Today, with the universal church, we affirm our belief that Mary, the Mother of God, was freed from the corruption of the grave; she […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican investment office made 32.27 million euros (about $35.2 million) in profit in 2022 and contributed the entire amount to the Vatican’s operating budget, said Bishop Nunzio Galantino, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. The profit was close to 6 million euros less than what the […]
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Catholics around the world mark the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary Aug. 15, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into heaven. But while the feast day is a relatively new one, the history of the holiday — and the mystery behind it — has its roots in the earliest centuries of […]
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