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By Lucia A. Silecchia
The petals were dusty yellow and flecked with white. They emerged with timid strength from a nearly invisible crack in the blacktop of a nondescript driveway. In the midst of the dark pavement, a spunky petunia bloomed. The contrast between the delicate bright beauty of the flower and the cold ugliness of the asphalt was […]
Pope Leo XIV
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — The "barbarity of war" and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of worship have to be protected, Pope Leo XIV implored.
Pope Leo XIV
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the first crewed moon landing.
Global
By Diego López Marina
“I believe that artificial intelligence will become an essential technology for preaching or pastoral care of the faithful,” said Father Ignazio Son Chang-hyun, one of the priests who participated in a recent innovative training organized by the Diocese of Suwon, South Korea.
Pope Leo XIV
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telephoned Pope Leo XIV, who urged Israel’s leader to revive negotiations and enact a ceasefire. The morning call to the pope’s summer residence at Castel Gandolfo July 18 came the day after the Israeli army struck the Holy Family Church compound, the only Catholic Church in the […]
National
By Daniel Payne
A federal court on July 18 blocked a controversial Washington state reporting law that would require priests to violate the seal of confession, siding with the state’s Catholic bishops who brought suit against the measure earlier this year.
Local
By Anna Donofrio
Before 1993, Craig Turner staunchly opposed the Catholic Church’s teaching on the Eucharist. Some 32 years and one conversion later, he now boasts a Virginia license plate with the word “EUCHRST.” Turner was one of many parishioners of Holy Spirit Church in Annandale who signed up to attend the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis last […]
Local
By Anna Donofrio
A few minutes before 11 a.m., the doors of St. Leo the Great School opened and hundreds of youths rushed onto the blacktop toward the adjacent soccer fields. The annual Battle of the Servers had begun. The event, organized by the diocesan vocations office and run by seminarians, felt more like a family reunion at […]
Local
By Jim Hale
Something countercultural took place at the 216-year-old Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, where 101 high school boys were attending the weeklong, diocesan Quo Vadis Summer Camp in Emmitsburg, Md. For two hours July 16, the boys observed strict silence, first at Holy Hour, then during private retreat time, and they loved it. “It is extremely countercultural,” […]
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