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By Zoey Dimauro
It started with just two sewing machines and four female inmates. Then the men wanted a group of their own. Soon, Susan Cavanaugh was running four quilting classes at the Arlington County Detention Facility. After years of teaching General Education Development and English as a Second Language to prisoners, Cavanaugh felt the inmates needed an […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
While President Obama is correct in saying the war on terror is not and mustn’t become a war against Islam, it would be foolish to ignore the religious dimension of Islamic terrorism as now reflected in the Holy Week attacks in Brussels. To do that would risk making the secularist world view underlying the strategic […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
At 7:30 p.m., the clock chimes bedtime at the home of little Suzie Q. Her parents kneel beside her bed, fold her hands and say a few prayers. They read her The Cat in the Hat and Goodnight Moon. They tuck her into bed, and wait for the inevitable moment when Susie crawls back out […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to Mexico since 2007, to be the new apostolic nuncio to the United States. He succeeds Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who has held the post since 2011. Archbishop Vigano turned 75 in January, the age at which canon law requires bishops to run […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ trip to Lesbos, Greece, April 16 comes at a frightening and critical time for tens of thousands of refugees and migrants waiting and wondering where they will end up, said members of Catholic aid agencies. Maristella Tsamatropoulou, spokeswoman for Caritas Hellas, the Catholic charity in Greece, said when rumors started […]
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By Katie Scott
As a teenager at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls Church, Youth Apostle Father John P. Peterson experienced the power of a friendship-based faith community to ignite a lasting love of Christ. The parish youth ministry “gave me an incredible love for God, the sacraments, Scripture, the church and community life,” said Father Peterson […]
Pope Francis
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on love and the family invites the church to see the daily struggles of families as an opportunity to encounter people the way Jesus encountered people with mercy throughout his life, Catholic observers said. Because of its length – 256 pages – and the depth to which the pope […]
Global
The following text is from ‘The Joy of Love,’ an apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis. The Joy of Love experienced by families is also the joy of the Church. As the Synod Fathers noted, for all the many signs of crisis in the institution of marriage, “the desire to marry and form a family remains […]
Global
By Paul Jeffrey
IRBIL, Iraq – A delegation of U.S. Catholic leaders visiting northern Iraq was challenged to go home and work for peace in the troubled region. “You have come to listen to your brothers and sisters in Iraq who are suffering. The situation is very hard. We cry out with one voice, ‘Don’t forget us,'” Auxiliary […]
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