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More than 800 people from the Arlington Diocese, from more than 50 parishes and as far as South Carolina, came to St. John Neumann Church in Reston to attend the Live Jesus conference for direction in Salesian spirituality. The theme this year was “Salesian GPS.”
Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge met with alumni and friends from St. Thomas More High School in Philadelphia at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More. His father was a graduate of St. Thomas More High School.
Travel behind the scenes with the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue in the Diocese of Arlington through March 25.
A couple dozen people were waiting in the parking lot of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington March 20 at around 5 p.m. as the blue 33-foot RV pulled up. With the look of groupies awaiting their favorite band’s arrival, these Catholics were waiting to see Mary, specifically the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima on tour around the diocese.
The battle for Lent is being waged in our heads — that’s where most marathons are finished, or not.
It is commonplace to say that America, along with other Western countries, is currently experiencing a cultural — which is to say: moral — crisis. And, in some quarters at least, it’s hardly less common to say this presents the church with both a challenge and an opportunity.
In July 1938, despite being pregnant, Emilia Fernandez Rodriguez was given a six-year jail sentence for trying to shield her husband, Juan Cortes, from recruitment by Republican paramilitaries after they occupied Tijola and closed its church.
The homeless are among the world's most vulnerable people and providing service to them during Lent is an ideal way for Catholics to live out their faith in a way that will make a real difference.
Freed from blindness