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“I decided to choose my Yes to pray for the children in danger of abortion, spend five minutes a day basically, because I realized that Advent was a time where Mary said ‘Yes’ to God, to accept the responsibility to accept Jesus Christ as her son. When she accepted that responsibility, she took it all the way. I want to help do something similar to what Mary did. I know as a man I can’t actually help stop or physically do anything about abortion, really, but I’d like to at least try to protect them in my own way and spend five minutes a day praying for them and their safety.”
Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge sat down for an interview with the Catholic Herald during his ad limina visit to Rome Dec. 2-6.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal executions in 16 years.
Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores Freshman Seminar, a semester-long, holistic course for ninth graders, is helping ease the transition between middle and high school — not only academically and socially, but emotionally as well.
The Arlington diocesan seminarians studying in Rome talk about discernment, getting mail and prayers from home and meeting Pope Francis.
Students at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington have launched an in-school enterprise to learn valuable business lessons. This operation is a cooperative project between the marketing class and students taking the Career Exploration class as a part of the school's expanded services for students with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. Their business is a special shop selling snacks and drinks that is open once a week during the school day.
Putting up a Nativity scene before Christmas is a reminder to stop and remember what Christmas is really about and to prepare one's heart like a manger for the coming of Christ, Pope Francis said.
Monica Ellen Stabile, who taught at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington for 35 years, died Dec. 15 in Arlington.
Pope Francis has abolished the obligation of secrecy for those who report having been sexually abused by a priest and for those who testify in a church trial or process having to do with clerical sexual abuse.
Doctors told Vera Calandra that her daughter, Vera Marie, would not make it to her first birthday due to congenital defects that had already necessitated the removal of her bladder. They did not count on St. Pio of Pietrelcina, or Padre Pio.
