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The chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee said Aug. 23 that he sees "heartbreaking consequences for immigrant children" in a final rule issued by the Trump administration that allows the federal government to hold immigrant children in family detention indefinitely.
Great Catholic Music, a free audio web streaming service, will honor "the music legacy" of the St. Louis Jesuits a week ahead of the group reuniting for a final performance Sept. 29.
Describing the Amazon rainforest as "vital for our planet," Pope Francis joined the region's bishops in praying for action to extinguish the massive fires burning there.
Catholic Charities Christ House in Alexandria and Migration and Refugee Services in Arlington, Fredericksburg and Manassas have distributed more than 500 backpacks and school supplies to students who need a little help getting ready for the school year.
Why has the conversation around “emotional labor” as defined in the first two examples become so important? I think, in part, that we want to be seen, and the work of those first two definitions is mostly little and hidden. It’s the myriad of intentional movements that make up such a large part of our lives but that go unnoticed unless we don’t do them. They are the small, ordinary, but often sacred threads that, stitched together, are a life of holiness in service to others.
St. Charles Borromeo Philippine Medical Mission (SCBPMM) celebrates 20 years.
Bishop Mark E. Brennan was welcomed Aug. 22 at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which encompasses the state of West Virginia, in a ceremony filled with song and applause.
"You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts." This observation, attributed to Democratic politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan, comes to mind as I see warring opinions about the Trump administration's latest conflict with Planned Parenthood.
The bus ferrying the altar servers from Church of Nativity in Burke to the Battle of the Servers, hosted at St. Leo School in Fairfax, was electric with anticipation for the day, brimming with 35 servers coming to take part in the fun and games.
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Each day, the souls of more than 150,000 people pass from this life into eternity. That’s more than 6,000 each hour, or 100 each minute. Have you ever wondered what happens to them all? Where do they go? Jesus’ teaching holds forth two, and only two, eternal destinations for the human soul — either everlasting fulfillment in heaven, or everlasting torment in hell. Dare we hope that most people go to heaven? Some spiritual writers, most notably St. Clement of Alexandria and St. Gregory Nazianzen, believed that God's mercy was so great that most souls were saved. Many other saints, most notably St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, believed that evil was so pervasive and sin so corrupting, that most souls were lost.