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The new campus at St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly came with many beautiful donations that brought meaning, love and community to Paul VI’s new home. One prominent donation is the collection of paintings of saints in the chapel by artist Betsy Farr.
MEXICO CITY — A Dominican sister was shot in the leg as her humanitarian relief team came under gunfire from paramilitaries in Mexico's southern Chiapas state.
WASHINGTON — There's a theater adage that if you have a lousy dress rehearsal, you're likely to have a great performance.
VATICAN CITY — Despite quickly shifting travel restrictions in place during the global pandemic, the majority of cardinals-designate were planning to attend the Vatican ceremony to receive their red hats and cardinal's rings.
In a world that is ever-changing, I really appreciate having some things that are constant. One great example for me is the sanctuary lamp. Whenever I visit a church for the first time, as I try to navigate the layout, art and architecture of the place, I feel grounded once I find the familiar flicker of the sanctuary lamp. The quiet dancing flame acts as a warden, faithfully standing guard in the church and signaling that Jesus is present there, like a lighthouse on the shore breaking through the fog and offering guidance to a ship tossed at sea.
I found myself asking “how did we get here?” a lot over this past year. I witnessed such sadness, anger, confusion, frustration and feelings of loneliness — and that was just when I looked in the mirror. The venom and resentment showcased on the different media outlets led me to wonder when is the last time it has been this bad? Lives being lost and livelihoods changed dramatically by this virus. With the murder of George Floyd and racial tensions at an all-time high in my lifetime, I did not know what to do.
Have you ever thought about what it would be like without modern medicine, even primitive medicine? What if you had a gash on your leg that needed stitches, but there was no way to bridge the gap and allow for healing? These were things I wondered sitting in the emergency room, staring down at my leg that looked like a shark had taken a bite out of it — but there are no sharks on the side of the road in the mountains of Maryland.
Kristie Meyers, curriculum coordinator at St. Bernadette School in Springfield, is the new principal of St. Isidore of Seville Diocesan Virtual School. She succeeds Leslie Lipovski, diocesan superintendent of curriculum and assessment, who was named interim principal when the school launched this fall.
Msgr. Robert E. Avella, the first priest ordained for the newly formed (1974) Diocese of Arlington, died Nov. 18 of cancer. He was 71.
VATICAN CITY -- There is no better way to pray than like Mary, who opened her heart to God with humility and trust, Pope Francis said.
