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By Zoey Maraist
A weekly parish class helps participants stay physically and mentally fit.
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A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ, Mary, and all the saints to remove the temporal punishment due to sin. The indulgence applies to sins already forgiven. A plenary indulgence cleanses the soul as if the person had just been baptized. A plenary indulgence can […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has named Dominican Sister Helen Alford, dean of the faculty of social sciences at the Angelicum University in Rome, to be president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Vatican announced the appointment of Sister Alford, 58, April 1. She has been a member of the academy since 2020 […]
Local
The Virginia Catholic Conference published its annual report April 3 summarizing how state lawmakers voted on important legislation. The report from the VCC, the public policy arm of Virginia’s bishops, chronicled 10 senate votes and eight house votes recorded during this year’s session, which took place Jan. 11-Feb. 25 in Richmond. This year, the organization […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
Celebration and sorrow mingled at the Mass for Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington April 2. While they rejoiced during the Gospel of the Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem, Massgoers later witnessed Jesus’ anguish in the retelling of the Passion. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge recognized […]
Pope Francis
By Courtney Mares
Pope Francis was discharged from the hospital April 1 after a three-night stay in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. Before departing by car, the pope greeted the crowd gathered outside of the hospital. In an emotional moment, he stopped to embrace and pray with a sobbing mother whose 5-year-old daughter died in the hospital the night before. […]
National
By Joe Bukuras
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and archbishop for the Military Services, USA, offered prayers for the nine American soldiers who died in a tragic accident during a helicopter training exercise in Kentucky March 29. “The tragic helicopter crash in Kentucky is a grim reminder of the risks taken […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said. In his homily for Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square April 2, the pope reflected on the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
ROME — Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel. The child, who was just a few weeks old, was sleeping peacefully in a portable hospital bassinet as the pope and the mother […]
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