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By Ashleigh Kassock
In an effort to support its catechists, the Diocese of Arlington holds the annual catechetical conference. It’s an opportunity for those on the frontlines of the new evangelization to be reinvigorated through prayers, speakers, workshops and community support.
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Putting the brakes on dangerous and distracted driving, Pope Francis criticized using mobile phones when at the wheel and treating roads like racetracks. While praising the work and sacrifice of police officers dealing with transit and highway patrol, he also cautioned them against turning the just use of force into brutality. […]
Global
By Matthew Fowler
VATICAN CITY — A seminary is not typically known for its emphasis on physical activity and fitness, but many seminarians see it as an integral part of daily life. Andrew Auer, Joseph Caraway and his cousin, Michael Caraway, are just a few of the seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome who […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — As the nation made preparations to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed gratitude for “the gift of immigrants and refugees to the country,” but also appealed for their protection. “As we do every year, we will pause this coming Thursday to thank God for the […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON — There’s little doubt among the church’s deep thinkers that renowned theologian Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray continues to shape Catholic social thought and interaction today, 50 years after his death. Beginning in the 1940s and through his death in 1967, his writings on religious freedom, birth control, church-state relations, Catholic engagement in […]
Columns
By Maria Pia Negro Chin
Poet John Milton is thought to have said, “Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” There are so many things for which to be grateful to God. What’s amazing is that once you start finding blessings, they […]
Columns
By Greg Erlandson
On Nov. 14, Kevin Janson Neal paced about a remote elementary school in the small Northern California community of Rancho Tehama Reserve, apparently looking for children to shoot during a killing spree that left five dead and at least 10 wounded in seven different locations. Thanks to the quick actions of a school secretary, […]
Columnists
By John Garvey
Richard Wilbur died last month. He was, Dana Gioia said, the finest poet of his generation and the greatest American Christian poet since Eliot. Here’s an example of why I liked him so much. It is part of a toast he gave at his eldest son’s wedding. (I recited it at the marriage of […]
Local
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) group has named Melissa Pore, a science teacher at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, to its U.S. Education Committee. Pore teaches engineering and technology at O’Connell. Previously, she was director of technology programs and a computer teacher at nearby St. Thomas More Cathedral School, where […]
Local
At the recent Arlington Diocesan Council meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP), the new board was installed for the 2017-20 term. Members of SVdP are called Vincentians and are part of a worldwide family of 1.5 million members. The new board members are President Christopher Disney, First Vice President Bob […]
