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Syrians don't want to leave their homeland, they want a safe place to live in peace, said a Franciscan friar from Aleppo, Syria, who spoke on Jan. 5 with the Archdiocese of Washington's Holy Land Committee.

Usually, our trips to the train station are mad dashes. Stressful, time crunched zig-zags through traffic to retrieve or drop-off a child before hurriedly moving on to the next event or responsibility. But this time, four days after Christmas, was different. 

At the end of such a long pilgrimage we can understand something important about the willingness these Magi had to learn from the journey and to learn from the Child. The experiences of the pilgrimage of life are similar

Certain saints are regarded as having particular "specialties" — either because of the history of that saint's life or the record of certain favors being granted through their intercession.

Here in the Diocese of Arlington, we have a long held tradition of welcoming refugees and immigrants.  Mindful of our Catholic teaching on the dignity of every human person, we can look back with gratitude on the many ways our parishes have welcomed the stranger—as Christ himself—over the decades.

As Americans await a volatile, unpredictable new president, many are understandably nervous at the prospect of a chief executive so largely an unknown quantity as this one. In these circumstances, the need for a free, responsible press unafraid to hold an incoming president to a measure of accountability he may not be eager to practice has never been greater. But is the traditional news media up to the task? 

Adversity begets longevity. 

Bryan Cranston plays the owner of a money-losing commercial printing operation in Michigan who, together with his wife (Megan Mullally) and 15-year-old son (Griffin Gluck), travels to California to spend Christmas with his daughter (Zoey Deutch).

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