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Panamanian prelate to World Youth Day pilgrims: Make the adults nervous.
As a former principal of a Catholic elementary school just outside Washington, Mary Pat Donoghue was hit with the major factors that could close a school and almost did. Instead, she helped turn around a Hyattsville school in the space of just one year.
Barbara McGraw Edmondson, former Chief Leadership and Program Officer with the National Catholic Educational Association, will become the Head of School at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington July 1.
Virginia Bishops Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington and Barry C. Knestout of Richmond Jan. 16 signed the U.S. Catholic Climate Declaration, a document supporting the call to take prudent action to protect the global climate, which Pope Francis reminds us is “a common good, belonging to all and meant for all” (“Laudato Si,’ On Care for Our Common Home,” no. 23).
Though World Youth Day had not officially started, it seemed as if it unofficially began Jan. 21 on the observation deck overlooking the locks of the Panama Canal, where the young — and the young-at-heart — formed a conga line as some beat the drums and others chanted or cheered to honor the Catholic Church, Pope Francis or Mary.
Pope Francis has named Father Joseph L. Coffey and Father William J. Muhm as auxiliary bishops of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.
Pastoral Orientations on Human Trafficking is a welcome resource in the Diocese of Arlington.
The Vatican has created a set of pastoral guidelines to inspire and improve the church's work in addressing the crime of human trafficking and the care of its victims worldwide.
President Donald Trump and Congress "must come together" to reach a bipartisan solution that reopens the government and "recognizes the economic struggle" now facing federal workers and their families and all those helped by federal nutrition and housing programs, said two U.S. bishops.
One of our girls gave me a book for Christmas, "One Man's Meat," by E.B. White. We agreed to start a little book club, just the two of us — coffee once a month to talk about it.
