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By Peter Pinedo
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minn., unequivocally condemned the FDA’s approval of the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive “Opill” in a short but strongly worded statement released July 13 on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The use of artificial contraceptives of any kind is directly contradictory to Catholic moral teaching and is “intrinsically […]
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By Daniel Payne
Authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder July 5 of a teacher from Kentucky on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington. Maxwell Emerson, 25, was shot and killed on the universitys campus. The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement this week that it arrested D.C. resident Jaime Maceo, […]
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By Tyler Arnold
Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee pressed FBI director Chris Wray July 12 on a leaked memo from the bureau’s Richmond division that described an investigation into Catholic communities. The internal memo, dated Jan. 23 and leaked to the press Feb. 8, outlines a Richmond FBI’s investigation of “radical-traditionalist” Catholics. It claimed that violent […]
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Members of the Knights of Columbus Father Sikora Council No. 7992 and Nativity Catholic Church completed their 25th home for those in need in Appalachia last month. In two weeks, a crew of 30 built a new home for the Creekmore family, who had been living in a dilapidated trailer. Since 2001, Nativity has contributed […]
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Roy and Valerie Naquin, parishioners of Corpus Christi Church in Aldie, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last month at age 91 and 89, respectively. They married June 13, 1953, at St. Ann Church in Arlington with Father James O’Hara officiating. Through their years together, the Naquins have lived throughout Northern Virginia, all part of the […]
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By Soren Johnson
I’m certain I’m not the only guy out there who finds myself reacting to others and to situations in ways that are, well, suboptimal. So, when a friend told me about his attempt to go from “reactivity” to being a “non-anxious presence,” I paid attention. Citing rabbi and “Failure of Nerve” author Edwin Friedman, he […]
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Global
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Catholic universities must not recoil from the daunting risks of artificial intelligence but become proactively involved in its ethical development, said the head of the Dicastery for Culture and Education. Catholic universities are obligated “to a delicate exercise of responsibility” in the “new historical era” represented by AI, said Cardinal José Tolentino […]
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By Peter Pinedo
El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, head of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee, praised the Biden administration’s new immigrant Family Reunification Parole program and called for more immigration reform. “We welcome this effort to provide a realistic opportunity for attaining family unity and reunification,” Bishop Seitz said in a statement released July 10. According to Bishop […]
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By Natalia Zimbrão
The little boy who managed to get past the crowd control barrier at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 to give an emotional embrace to Pope Francis is now a seminarian preparing for the priesthood. On July 26, 2013, Nathan de Brito, then 9 years old, managed to get to the popemobile […]
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