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By Natalie Hoefer
INDIANAPOLIS – The two small children and their parents were exhausted as their plane landed in Indianapolis at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7. This was a family of refugees, leaving behind all they owned in war-ravaged Syria, ready to finally settle in the United States after a three-year wait to be welcomed. Flor Bickel, senior immigration […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. What is the Christian response to ISIS? (Harrisonburg, Va.) A. The Christian response to ISIS is to deplore their violence and to seek the most effective means to stop it. In March 2015, in what was seen as an unusually blunt endorsement of military action, the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – With the opening the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pope Francis declared that the time for tenderness, joy and forgiveness had begun. As holy doors around the world were opened at city cathedrals, major churches and sanctuaries Dec. 13, the pope said this simple gesture of opening God’s […]
Schools
Christendom College in Front Royal reported a 21 percent increase in the number of early action applications received compared to this time last year. In addition, the number of men in the applicant pool increased, with 49 percent more male applicants than last year. “The current generation of students … want(s) an education that is […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Catholics are called to witness to their faith in Jesus before all people, including Jews, but the Catholic Church “neither conducts nor supports” any institutional missionary initiative directed toward Jews, says a new document from a Vatican commission. How God will save the Jews if they do not explicitly believe in Christ […]
Local
By For The Catholic Herald
Sister Bernadette McManigal, B.V.M., diocesan superintendent of schools, has announced that she will retire June 30 after eight years of service to the diocese. A nationally recognized leader in Catholic education, Sister Bernadette was appointed interim superintendent of schools in September 2008. Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde made her appointment permanent seven months later. “Sister […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – To help appreciate and better promote the vocation of religious brothers, the Vatican released a 50-page reflection on the importance of their life and mission of evangelization, fraternity and sacrifice. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life released “Identity and Mission of the Religious Brother in the […]
National
BALTIMORE – The American contingent to World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, in July is expected to top 30,000 pilgrims. Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Conn., in a Nov. 17 presentation during the U.S. bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore, that the U.S. delegation of young people is expected to be the largest outside […]
Schools
A reception for the Senior Art Exhibit of Marymount University in Arlington will take place Dec. 11, 5 to 7:30 p.m., in the Barry Gallery of Reinsch Library, 2807 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington. Senior art majors whose work will be shown include: Maggie Brewer, Briana Clorey, Elizabeth Gwin, Demetrius Jordan, Maura McCandlish and Kiki Neibuhr. […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
The Northern Virginia town of Gainesville and the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem in Israel could not be more different. To get to Gainesville, the most challenging part is navigating the traffic on Interstate 66. Bethlehem is a bit more complicated; you need to traverse Israeli and Palestinian checkpoints. Mary and Joseph’s journey from […]
