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Lift up your eyes from your smartphones and see your brothers and sisters, those who share your journey of faith and those who are longing for the Word of life, Pope Francis told consecrated men and women.

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Vatican efforts to honor those who suffer and die for their faith while trying to negotiate with oppressive regimes to expand religious freedom have been fraught with criticism and real pain for more than 50 years.

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a name="_GoBack">/a>Father Paul F. deLadurantaye, secretary for religious education and for the liturgy, sent a memorandum to diocesan priests with suggestions of what should be done to minimize the transmission of contagious illnesses.

Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries hosted its seventh annual “Orange Out” Jan. 9 to honor the memory of Sarah Jakielski, a former student who lost her life to leukemia Dec. 13, 2011.   

There is a flurry of activity in the passage we hear this week from the Gospel of Mark. Preceding this Sunday's reading, Jesus cast a demon from a man in the synagogue of Capernaum. Our Gospel begins when Jesus left the synagogue and entered the home of Peter, where, encountering the apostle's mother-in-law with a fever, He healed her.

What does the church teach about what happens after someone dies? The reason I bring it up is that often when I attend a Catholic funeral, I hear the priest say in a homily that the deceased is now in heaven and suffering no more. But how does that fit in with the church's teaching on purgatory? 

A religious brother, a campus ministry director and a youth minister who is a wife and new mother have been named to represent the United States as young adult delegates at a pre-synod gathering in Rome in March.

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On this World Day for Consecrated Life, we celebrate the men and women religious who consecrate their lives to the Lord through the counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience. 

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