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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In the second of his “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation center. To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort at the San Carlo Community Feb. 26 with just […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – As a mid-March deadline approaches for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make a decision on whether to make a declaration of genocide in the Middle East, the Knights of Columbus, based in New Haven, Conn., and the Washington-based group In Defense of Christians have mounted a petition campaign asking Kerry to […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its first abortion case in nine years March 2 in a challenge by Texas abortion clinics to a 2013 state law that requires them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers and their doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The almost 90 […]
Local
By Katie Scott
If you could perform a simple act that would make you feel strengthened, free and at peace, would you do it? Confession presents Catholics with such an opportunity, but for many individuals, even those who deeply love the church, confession is tough. Some avoid it for years, others for decades. Known also as penance or […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
Hundreds of years ago, the lush green island of Ireland was controlled by the British crown, which suppressed the Catholic faith brought by St. Patrick centuries before. To keep their culture alive, the Irish people formed secret societies for the protection of the priests they needed to carry on the faith. When the potato famine […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Ranger Guide Kelly Dobson recently instructed boys in his Rangers group at St. Veronica Church in Chantilly how to dispose of blessed palms as part of a service project. The ashes from the palms will be used next year during St. Veronica’s Ash Wednesday Mass. The Rangers respectfully placed folded palms in the fire Monday […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
This agreeably picturesque love story features likable characters who briefly consider the morality of at least some of their decisions. But it’s so intractably bland, as it strains not to offend, that its plot points lack all emotional tug. Director Ross Katz and screenwriter Bryan Sipe, adapting the 2007 novel by Catholic author Nicholas Sparks, […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
A Catholic Navy SEAL with a strong devotion to St. Michael the Archangel was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama at the White House Feb. 29. The 36-year-old Ohio native, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Edward C. Byers Jr., rescued a civilian hostage in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan in December […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Cops honest and otherwise clash with Russian mobsters on the mean streets of Atlanta in this extremely violent thriller directed by John Hillcoat. A mafia moll (Kate Winslet) blackmails corrupt officers (most prominently Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anthony Mackie) into carrying out a bank robbery, hoping to free her jailed lover back in Moscow. But a […]
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Parishioners at St. Katharine Drexel Mission celebrated their patron saint’s feast day Feb. 28.
