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Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — In a gesture of service toward marginalized people, Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 inmates, including three women and a man who is converting from Islam to Catholicism. Although in Jesus’ time, washing the feet of one’s guests was performed by slaves, Jesus “reverses” this role, the pope said during the […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Bishop Burbidge celebrates his first Chrism Mass in Arlington
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Since my Installation Mass in December, I have been blessed to participate in some significant diocesan events and initiatives.
Global
By Mark Pattison
A new study issued by the Pew Research Center shows that restrictions on religion around the world, both by governments and their citizens, are once again on the rise after having ticked downward in prior years.
Local
By Elizabeth A. Elliott
Roman soldiers, Pontius Pilate, Jesus, Mary, John and others acted out the living Stations of the Cross in front of Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville April 11.
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Despite recent and repeated terrorist attacks against Egypt’s minority Christian communities, Pope Francis will not cancel his visit to Egypt. “The pope’s trip to Egypt proceeds as scheduled,” Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, told Catholic News Service by email April 10. The pope is scheduled to meet governmental and interfaith leaders during […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-90) — a theologian who came to prominence in the Victorian Age — can help us check the church’s spiritual pulse in the post-modern 21st century, thanks to his prescient sense of the deep cultural currents shaping (and warping) Western civilization. On Aug. 26, 1832, Newman preached a sermon, “The Religion […]
Global
By Barbara J. Fraser
HUARAZ, Peru — A grim-faced Pontius Pilate stares straight ahead, while Jesus, bound with rope, stands beside him, head down. Jesus turns a tortured face heavenward as He falls for the first time under the weight of a stone cross. Mary places a hand on Jesus’ arm, as if beseeching, and He looks at […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — The kind of health care most at risk of being neglected for those who are ill or hospitalized is love, Pope Francis told pediatric patients. A hospital must always carry out certain procedures and functions, but “there is the danger, the risk of forgetting the most important medicine only a family […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — The office charged with coordinating Pope Francis’ acts of charity announced the opening of a laundromat for the poor and homeless of Rome. The “Lavanderia di Papa Francesco” (“Pope Francis Laundry”) is a free service “offered to the poorest people, particularly the homeless, who will be able to wash, dry and […]
