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By Cecilia Engbert
A group of high schoolers from St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fredericksburg approached a small house in Sabana Mula, Dominican Republic, where a woman invited them inside. She brought them to her bedridden mother, who can only move to her wheelchair with the assistance of her son, who was away that day […]
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Two Dominicans with ties to the Arlington diocese, Sister Mary Joseph Wittman and Sister Anna Joy Tipton, made their profession of perpetual vows July 25 in Nashville, Tenn. Sister Mary Joseph Wittman Sister Mary Joseph Wittman grew up attending St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton. She attended Seton School in Manassas and George Mason […]
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Bishop Burbidge
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released proposed regulations Aug. 7 implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, responded with the following statement: “We supported the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act because it enhanced the protection of […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Signaling the Vatican’s growing engagement in efforts to ensure the ethical development of new technologies, the Vatican has announced that “Artificial Intelligence and Peace” will be the theme for the next World Day of Peace, which is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2024. “The remarkable advances made in the field of artificial intelligence […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a world suffering from “diseases of the soul,” like pride, hatred and violence, the young people who traveled to Portugal for World Youth Day showed that another way of living and interacting is possible, Pope Francis said. World Youth Day was not a vacation, but “an encounter with the living Christ […]
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By Lucia A. Silecchia
This past month, I have read with interest many accounts of World Youth Day and the experiences shared by my younger sisters and brothers in Christ as hundreds of thousands of them experienced their pilgrimage to Portugal. Although I am an avid letter writer, I cannot write hundreds of thousands of letters to welcome each […]
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John Horejsi, founder of Social Action Linking Together (SALT), died of cancer Aug. 4. at age 83. Horejsi was born June 9, 1940, in Bechyn, Minn., the fourth son of Anton Wenceslaus Sr. and Ann Frank Horejsi. He was the first in his family to attend college and graduated from the University of Minnesota with […]
Pope Francis
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
Francisco Velarde, a 21-year-old Spaniard, was one of the young people who had the privilege of going to confession with Pope Francis Aug. 4 at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. A few hours later, and still “in a cloud,” he told ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, the details of what he considers “the […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
LISBON, Portugal — To end “Catholic Woodstock” — as World Youth Day has been called by the Portuguese press — Pope Francis told 1.5 million weary-eyed and sleep-deprived young people in Lisbon not to let their “great dreams” of changing the world be “stopped by fear.” In his homily for the closing Mass of World […]
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