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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican does not deny reports that while in Washington, Pope Francis briefly met with Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses. Davis, the elected clerk of Rowan County, initially refused to grant marriage licenses to gay couples and then stopped issuing them […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Just off Route 7 in Berryville, a group of monks live a hidden life in prayerful service to God and the Church. The Trappist monastery is located in the heart of the Shenandoah valley on 1200 acres of beautiful Virginia countryside. The brothers go to great pains to care for the environment while also using […]
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The Walk for Life to support the Front Royal Pregnancy Center will begin at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 3 in the parking lot behind FRPC at 11 S. Royal Avenue, Front Royal. “The women served by the staff and volunteers of the center have found a place that will support them emotionally, spiritually and materially through […]
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By Katie Scott
Like the newly sainted Father Junípero Serra whose great faith inspired long treks, thousands of seminarians and religious novices traveled vast distances to attend the Franciscan friar’s canonization Mass and see Pope Francis. Their pilgrimages to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 23 varied in length and effort, […]
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By Kate Turgeon Watson
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Walker family filed through the side entrance of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh. A bag on her shoulder and a 3-year-old on her hip, mom Noel Zemborain smiled. A pack at his waist, dad Catire Walker held the door as their three older children passed by. At least 50 adults from […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
I’m reading a book that speaks to me as a journalist, Brian Grazer’s 2015 release A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. In it, the 64-year-old Emmy-winning movie producer recounts his practice of conducting “curiosity conversations” twice a month for the past three decades to fill up his knowledge reserve and walk in […]
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By George Weigel
The XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family begins with Mass in St. Peter’s Oct. 4. No synod in modern Catholic history has drawn such worldwide press attention or generated such controversy within the church (with the possible exception of the special synod called by John Paul II to examine […]
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By Bill Dodds
Looking back more than three years, I would call them angels of mercy. At the time, as they sat at our dining room table, I probably thought of them more as messengers of death. The two women weren’t any sort of messengers, in fact. They had simply answered my wife’s request. Earlier in the week, […]
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By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – The 11,000 ticketed guests and a cast of hundreds extra – military units, musicians and federal employees – who waited on the White House lawn to greet Pope Francis Sept. 23 were clearly there as fans of the visiting pope. As the sun rose over a spectacularly blue September sky, a cross-section of […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I have attended a Catholic church with my husband for 15 years. I am not a Catholic, but I am Christian. We have raised our children as Catholic, and we all attend Mass each week. When I go up in the Communion line with my family, I cross my arms and receive a blessing. […]
