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Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments:
In recent weeks, a number of tragedies have led many people to flee violence, oppression or desperate living conditions. None was more obvious and heart-wrenching than last month’s deadly earthquake in Haiti and the Taliban’s retaking of Afghanistan. These needs and struggles are of particular concern this month, in which we as a Church unite around the struggle of migrants across the globe, culminating on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees Sept. 27.
Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Arlington celebrated its 75th anniversary with a picnic, games and activities Sept. 19.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee and the head of Catholic Charities USA issued a joint statement Sept. 22 urging humane treatment of Haitians and other migrants as their numbers grow in southern Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — At 7:30 a.m. at field hospital No. 16, religious brothers and sisters began their shift with prayers for patients who had just died of COVID-19.
BRYAN, Texas — The national 40 Days for Life organization launched its fall campaign Sept. 22, with volunteers in over 1,000 cities across the country planning to pray, fast and hold 24-hour vigils outside abortion clinics.
VATICAN CITY — Bishops and others in the Catholic Church often lament the declining number of Christians, but rarely do they examine their own behavior and failure to show others how much God loves them, Pope Francis told the presidents of European bishops' conferences.
VATICAN CITY — When Pary Gul, a Christian woman from Afghanistan, met Pope Francis Sept. 22, she gave him her wedding ring as a reminder of her husband, who has disappeared and may be dead.
WASHINGTON — John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington since 2010, announced Sept. 22 that he will be stepping down from the role he described as "an honor and a privilege" at the end of June.
Rooting out sin
Jesus uses very strong language in today’s Gospel passage to challenge us to root sin out of our lives: Cut off our hands and feet and pluck out our eyes if they cause us to sin.