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‘Blessing boxes’ aid the needy

By Maryanne Meyerriecks

The blessing boxes are based on the Little Free Pantry project started by Jessica McClard at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville in May 2016. Providing free food, drinks and personal care items is similar to the Little Free Library concept that now dots the country. Anyone can take whatever items they need any time of the day or night, but visitors are also able to leave items if they wish. 

Local

VCC highlights how the church serves Virginia

Although there are 700,000 Catholics in the commonwealth of Virginia, many may be unaware of the significant impact the church has on the state’s faith, workforce, education, health care and social services. 

National

Bishops say U.S. must show compassion for immigrants

By Rhina Guidos
WASHINGTON — While one Catholic archbishop was urging a fix to the country’s immigration laws before a Catholic crowd, another was pleading with the government not to separate mothers from their children while in immigration detention, and yet another, a cardinal, was accompanying a grandfather to an appointment that could have resulted in his deportation. […]
Global

Pope to visit Colombia in September

By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will be visiting Colombia in mid-September as the Latin American nation works to implement a new peace deal and rebuild after 52 years of war. The Vatican announced March 10 that the pope had accepted the invitation of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Colombian bishops. The trip, Sept. 6-11, […]
National

Cardinal Dolan op-ed urges passage of nationwide school choice bill

By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York urged President Donald Trump to follow through on a recent call for legislation that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth nationwide. Writing in a column for The Wall Street Journal March 9, Cardinal Dolan said he hoped that the president would “push Congress to make […]
National

Maryland pastor named auxiliary bishop for Washington

By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has appointed Father Roy Edward Campbell Jr., who is pastor of St. Joseph Church in Largo, Maryland, as an auxiliary bishop of Washington.   The appointment was announced March 8 in Washington by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.   Bishop-designate Campbell, 69, has been pastor of St. […]
Art

Botticelli comes to Virginia

By Nora Hamerman
There has never been an exhibit devoted to the entire career of Sandro Botticelli, one of the most beloved artists of the Italian Renaissance— until now. This exhibit, spanning five decades of one of the most creative lives in western Christendom, is just a few hours away in Williamsburg. Botticelli made “a lifelong effort to […]
National

Arkansas to execute eight inmates in April

By Catholic News Service
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas, which has not executed anyone in more than 12 years, plans to execute eight death-row inmates in a period of 10 days this April before one of the state’s lethal injection drugs expires. Proclamations signed by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson in late February set the four execution dates for the […]

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