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What I really want more than anything are days of a simple liturgy of joy. Not a formal liturgy inside a church building (though there will room for daily Mass) — but a purposeful season where the routines and rhythms and practices of daily life are inclined toward the quiet and the ordinary. After a season of noise and hustle, I look forward to a summer of simple, of returning to what I want, deep down.
We have to leave room for the Holy Spirit to whom we can turn when the paths for our plans seem to come to an abrupt end. Many people would readily offer that their lives took off because of the unplanned directions, from push and pull, that eventually gave them deep satisfaction.
Russell Shaw received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from The Catholic University of America in Washington at the university’s commencement May 18.
Charlett Talbot, a 9-year-old girl with a gentle smile, is in a wheelchair and cannot speak due to severe cerebral palsy, but her six siblings don’t seem to mind as the seven of them navigate precious space in the modest living room of their parents’ Arlington home.
According to the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools, the following people will retire at the end of this school year.
AnneMarie Caballero, a senior at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria with an outstanding 4.5 GPA, is on her way to study computer science as an undergraduate at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., this fall, but surprisingly her first taste of coding was a bad one.
Kathleen McNutt, principal of St. Louis School in Alexandria, has been named Head of School at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria effective July 1. McNutt succeeds Thomas J. Curry.
The priesthood is not a "cultural association or a union," but a ministry of mercy anchored on Christ's mission to bring hope to the downtrodden and comfort to those who suffer, Pope Francis told new priests.
As for praying to deceased loved ones, we may not be certain whether they have yet merited heaven. If they are still in purgatory, we can surely pray for them — but can they pray for us? And here, theologians have differed.
You have identified an issue that is clearly problematic and has been the source of discussion among theologians for centuries.
