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The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Sept. 11 that will temporarily allow the Trump administration to enforce its new rule preventing many Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, while the legal battle over this issue continues to work its way through the courts.
This Catholic naturalist promotes a love for God’s creation in her personal and professional life.
Be honest. What does this churchy bunch of words — "Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross” (Sept. 14) — mean to you? Deep down, how do you relate to the cross, your cross, or the crosses of others?
The Stafford County School Board voted 4-3 in favor of revisions to its nondiscrimination policies 4107 and 2420 that would include gender identity and expression as proposed by Superintendent Scott Kinzer. The vote was part of the agenda during the board's regular meeting at the Alvin York Bandy Administrative Complex Sept. 10.
“Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz” brings to stage the story of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the priest with a lifelong devotion to Mary who volunteered to take the place of another prisoner selected for execution at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
St. Paul VI Catholic High School is celebrating its final school year in Fairfax and will have a new home next fall. The school is moving from 16 acres in Fairfax City to a new 68-acre campus in the Chantilly/South Riding area of Loudoun County.
VATICAN CITY — After the consistory to create new cardinals in early October, Pope Francis will have chosen more than half of the men who will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect his successor.
MIAMI — Archbishop Patrick C. Pinder of Nassua, Bahamas, celebrated Mass Sept. 8 for evacuee families and Catholic school staff members a week after Hurricane Dorian slammed into the islands.
The feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary originated in Spain and was approved in 1513. In 1683, Pope Innocent XI extended the celebration of the feast day to the universal church, to be celebrated Sept. 12, four days after the feast of the Birth of the Blessed Mother. Although removed in 1970 from the universal calendar, Pope John Paul II reinstituted the celebration as an “optional memorial” in the Roman Missal in 2003.
I thank God that I grew up in the ’80s. We had great music, iconic hairstyles, unique fashion, and no internet. I can only imagine the amount of trouble my friends and I would have gotten into if we were carrying around cell phones with open access to the internet like many middle school students are today. When we had questions or curiosity about sex, we really only had two options … we could muster up the courage to ask our parents, or dare to look stupid by asking a friend. How sad it is today that those same basic, innocent questions can lead a young person to the internet to discover so much more than they had ever bargained for.
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