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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 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 […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I am having a hard time understanding why a Catholic church closed by a bishop can no longer be used for Masses, weddings and funerals. For more than 100 years, this particular church – built by my great-great-grandparents – was considered sacred ground. Now my grandson wants to get married in that beautiful little […]
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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
The five Visitation sisters were just looking for a quiet, shady spot to eat their Booeymonger sandwiches before the big canonization Mass Sept. 23 – not trying to start a media firestorm. But when they unwittingly pulled into a parking lot reserved for the press behind the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate […]
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 […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
St. Mark School in Vienna and Our Lady of Hope School in Potomac Falls were selected as Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. The announcement was made Sept. 29. Fifty private schools were honored. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools that are […]
National
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 […]
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By David Sedeno
PHILADELPHIA – Pope Francis met with a group of survivors of sexual abuse Sept. 27 and later told bishops that he was overwhelmed by a sense of embarrassment and was committed to holding accountable those who harmed children. In a meeting with cardinals, bishops, priests and seminarians at St. Charles Borromeo, the pope prefaced his […]
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By Dennis Sadowski
PHILADELPHIA – Pope Francis urged the hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families to serve and care for each other as freely as God loves the human family. The pope called upon the faithful to embrace signs that the Holy Spirit can work through everyone. He […]
