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Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church is not a “club” for the elderly; it needs the participation of young people to keep it alive and ensure it does not “grow old,” Pope Francis said. In a video message released July 27 to present his prayer intention for the month of August, “For World Youth Day,” […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — From a dark past of once allowing and ordering the censoring, banning and burning of the Talmud and other Hebrew texts, the Vatican has deepened its decades of fruitful dialogue and cooperation with Jewish leaders with a new interfaith study program. Some 20 Jewish and Christian scholars began a three-month hybrid course […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
A life without technology and the noise of the modern world may sound strange to most. For the 13 Trappist monks at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, it’s silence that makes them “countercultural,” according to Brother Mary John Blaschik. “From the outside, they probably think that we do nothing. But it’s from that ‘nothing’ […]
Local
Several hundred people attended the Mass for Hispanic Catholic Renewal at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls Church July 21. At the Mass, Spanish-speaking missionaries dedicate their service to parish priests to go door to door and evangelize. The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, who congratulated the missionaries on their enthusiasm […]
National
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory urged Catholics to work for justice, to care for others and to protect the environment, during his homily at the Mass for the Fourth African National Eucharistic Congress at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington July 22. “You have come … to honor the […]
Parishes
Legend has it that around the year 352, a childless couple in Rome wanted to donate their possessions to the Blessed Mother but they didn’t know how. In answer to their prayers, snow fell on Esquiline Hill one night in the middle of summer coinciding with a vision they had of Mary asking that a […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
More than 130 people from the Diocese of Arlington, including both teens and chaperones, are traveling to Lisbon, Portugal, for World Youth Day 2023. St. John Paul II established World Youth Day in 1986 because he had a great devotion to the well-being of young people and wanted them to know Christ more deeply. Now […]
Parishes
A journey to Egypt with Joseph St. Francis de Sales Church in Purcellville held its Vacation Bible School July 10-14 with a record 229 campers and 142 volunteers. This year’s theme, “Egypt: Joseph’s journey from prison to palace,” brought campers back to the Old Testament. During camp, volunteers helped with crafts, games, snacks and church […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
Sister Mary, Heart of the Trinity, attended three vocations camps in high school. Now she returns for the first time as a religious sister with the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, or the Servidoras. “I saw how influential (FIAT Days) was in my own life. I don’t know if I’d be […]
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