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The three themes Bishop Dewane highlighted were "subsidiarity, monopoly power and wage suppression"; "the universal destination of goods and employee ownership"; and "solidarity and unions."
The Catholic Labor Network works to foster cooperation between church and labor unions on three different levels — policy issues, organizing solidarity from Catholics and church institutions for workers who are trying to organize or bargain for a living wage, and job training and placement.
Localities in Northern Virginia are scrambling to provide more affordable housing as the market trends toward pricier rentals and costlier homes. Many believe the arrival of the 25,000 high-paying employees Amazon plans to hire in its new Crystal City office will worsen the crisis.
St. Augustine was a "seller of words." Prior to his conversion, he was a professor of rhetoric in Rome, making money teaching students how to speak well and persuade audiences. When the great saint found his way to Christianity, he realized that he had to abandon his "chair of lies."
No matter who we are, we all die, leave behind everything of this world, and face judgment. Therefore, better to live always as the humble servant of the Lord now and be recognized as such on judgment day.
Even before the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon begins, a new church initiative in the region set sail: the Pope Francis Hospital Ship.
Bishop Burbidge blesses the machine in front of staff and Knights.
Two parishioners of St. John the Beloved Church in McLean were in a multi-vehicle car crash the morning of Saturday, Aug. 24. Joseph Castellano, 28, died at the scene. His wife, Kate, also 28, was flown to a trauma center in Washington and is still in critical condition. Both graduated from Mount St. Mary University in Emmitsburg, Md.
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Care for creation
This year marks the fifth “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” Sept. 1. For Catholics, the day has its roots in Pentecost Sunday in 2015, when Pope Francis promulgated the Encyclical Letter on Care for our Common Home, “Laudato Si’ ”. It is no coincidence that the letter was given on the day that we proclaim in the entrance antiphon, “The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world” (Wis 1:7), and we implore in the responsorial psalm, “Lord, send forth your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth” (Ps 104).