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By Carol Zimmerman
The Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer — a white stucco church just off the Las Vegas Strip and dwarfed by giant hotels, casinos and flashing neon lights — has long been a spiritual oasis for tourists.
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Hurricane Harvey stranded Father David Bergeron in his pick-up truck the night it ripped through Houston. The 38-year-old priest had been visiting his brother and had to pull over on an overpass three miles from his home in the flood-ravaged southeast side. He couldn’t make it any farther or go back, so he curled […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
A few weeks back I woke up one morning to the news that 200 U.S. troops were participating in war games with the Egyptian army. My immediate, unpremeditated reaction was: Good grief — Egypt. What next? A little checking soon showed me that those 200 American soldiers were simply reviving — on a small […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
I have shepherded three books into the world this year. A fourth sits poised, ready and waiting, until its season arrives. Those spines stacked one atop the other, staring at me unblinking from my dining room table, tell me that I have been disciplined enough to do the work of publishing: the research, the writing, […]
Local
The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America held a blessing of the animals Sept. 30 in Washington. The prayer service was celebrated in observance of the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
Schools
By Special To The Catholic Herald
Holy Cross Academy in Fredericksburg participated in the National Catholic Education Association’s Student to Student: A Catholic School Response to Hurricane Relief 2017 program to assist the victims of the recent hurricanes. Each student was asked to bring in $1. NCEA guaranteed that the money would be given to children in afflicted areas. As […]
Schools
By Rosie Lenz and Alexandra Barrick
One of the first full-time employees to begin working at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries is leaving this week after nearly a decade. In her final days at the school, Jennifer Cole, director of communications and public relations, talks about her time working at the school, what’s changed and what […]
Local
Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge is initiating diocesanwide Holy Hours for Vocations at five churches. The Holy Hours, which include exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a reflection on scripture by Bishop Burbidge, time for silent prayer and Benediction, will be held at 7:30 p.m., followed by a light reception. The locations include: Oct. 20 […]
Columns
By Fr. William P. Saunders
Twenty-five years ago — Oct. 11, 1992 — Pope John Paul II, by means of the Apostolic Constitution Fidei Depositu, promulgated the first edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (in French). This date was not chosen randomly, but marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. Having […]
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By Elizabeth A. Elliott
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., beat St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., 3-0 at the Vianney Cup Sept. 30.
