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By Elizabeth Foss
I’m in a precarious position as I write this column. It is the Friday before Palm Sunday. We are but a few days from Holy Week. This column will be published on Holy Thursday, just as the most somber days of the year begin. Three days later, it will be Easter, the most jubilant day […]
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To commemorate Holy Week, parishioners throughout the diocese, including St. Anthony Parish in Falls Church and St. Timothy Church in Chantilly, took part in re-enactments of Jesus’ passion.
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By Katie Scott
In “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis condemns a culture of self-interest and overconsumption, leading some to claim the pontiff is anti-business. While the characterization is inaccurate, the pope is “vigorously proclaiming” the need for business leaders to adopt a deepened sense of responsibility for those on the peripheries and to […]
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By Kurt Jensen
WASHINGTON – In the end, the women religious decided it would be good to sing after all. That wasn’t on the agenda for the sunny 90-minute rally in front of the Supreme Court March 23 in support of the plaintiffs in Zubik v. Burwell. But it had a calming effect, so it seemed like the […]
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By George Weigel
Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The Tallis Scholars are a marvelous a capella ensemble, but most of their music that night was rather too minimalist for my tastes. In any event, the author of the program […]
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By Russell Shaw
News that Pope Francis will travel to Sweden in October for an event marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation underlines the fact that the Catholic Counter-Reformation is over. Whether Protestants are prepared to say the same about the Reformation is for them to decide. A Catholic can only hope. To say that these […]
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. Unless illness prevented it, I have attended daily Mass most of my life. (I love starting the day with the Lord in his house!) Now in my late 80s, I have already paid for my funeral arrangements. Because I have only a few relatives still living, I have requested that there not be a […]
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By Katie Scott
Like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, Tony Tringale often has apples on his mind. But while the folk hero was known for dispersing apple seeds, Tringale has spent much of his life spreading the word of God as a longtime lector at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Sitting in […]
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Fr. Noah C. Morey celebrates Palm Sunday Mass at All Saints Church in Manassas, blessing palms and leading a reading of Christ’s passion. Photos from the Palm Sunday Mass can be purchased here . Photos from the Spanish Palm Sunday Mass can be purchased here .
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By Zoey Dimauro
Every day, nuns around the country take care of the sick, teach children, serve the homeless and pray without ceasing. But March 23, more than 150 of them left their ministries to support their fellow religious women. They gathered as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the Little Sister of the Poor’s case against […]
