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By John Garvey
Catholic children learn the corporal and spiritual works of mercy (seven each) about the same time they learn the seven sacraments. Most of them come directly from the Gospel, especially from the description of the last judgment. They include feeding the hungry and visiting the sick, for example, as well as admonishing sinners and bearing […]
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Bring your friends – feathered, finned, furred or scaled – to celebrate the Feast of St. Francis and the annual blessing of pets. The following churches in the diocese are hosting blessings: -St. Ann Church, 5300 N. 10th St., Arlington, 10 a.m. near the cemetery, 703/528-6276. -St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church, 1009 Stafford […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — The expression "in like a lion out like a lamb" turns on its head when comparing the end of the Supreme Court's last term to the start of its new one Oct. 3.
Global
By Catholic News Service
TORONTO — The statistical probabilities behind praying your way out of stage 4 cancer are not good. When you're too skinny, too weak and hallucinating half the time, when friends and family come to your house and just cry, you don't make any long-term plans.
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By Walter Weber
It is easy to apologize for what someone else did. In fact, such an apology may give one a sense of moral superiority: “I know better than the perpetrator did.” It is much harder to recognize and apologize for one’s own wrongs. Georgetown’s recognition of its institutional complicity with slavery 178 years ago cannot undo […]
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By Connor Bergeron
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde and Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist Judith Gebelein (second from the left), president of the Sisters’ Council welcome to the diocese Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Melissa Mastrangelo (left) and Our Lady of La Salette Sister Agata Gemborys at verspers and dinner at the bishop’s residence Sept. 14.
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By Connor Bergeron
From Sept. to March 2017, relics and possessions of St. Thomas More come to the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington.
National
TOTOWA, N.J. — Retired Archbishop Peter L. Gerety of Newark died Sept. 20 while in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor at the order’s elder-care facility in Totowa. He was 104. According to a remembrance of Archbishop Gerety posted Sept. 21 by the Archdiocese of Newark on its website, Archbishop Gerety was […]
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By Connor Bergeron
The Bishop O’Connell girls’ varsity field hockey team defeat Paul VI 4-0 on its home turf Sept. 22.
