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By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – Cooking for 1,900 people, no problem. Cooking for the pope? Now that requires extra care. Chefs Michael McDonald and Irshaad Ellis-Bey say they are up to the challenge. Both men are heading the effort of the Washington Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities Enterprises catering service in preparing a meal for 500 guests, including Pope Francis, […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
SANTIAGO, Cuba – A key task of a traveling pope is to confirm his brothers and sisters in the faith. For Pope Francis in Cuba, that ministry took on added importance as Cuba and its people stand on the threshold of potentially epochal change. Many people inside and outside Cuba hope that normalized U.S.-Cuban relations […]
Movies
Based on the second novel in James Dashner’s sci-fi trilogy, this ponderous sequel to 2014’s “The Maze Runner” follows the further exploits of a band of intrepid teens (led by Dylan O’Brien) navigating a dystopian world. The challenges they face include the machinations of evil adults (typified by Patricia Clarkson) and the consequences of a […]
Movies
Honorable but slack drama, based on real events, in which an escaped prisoner (David Oyelowo) on a murderous rampage takes a drug-addicted diner waitress (Kate Mara) hostage in her home. As the already fragile woman struggles to stay alive, she reads sections of Rick Warren’s self-help best-seller, The Purpose Driven Life, to her captor, hoping […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – Acknowledging the real challenges and burdens the U.S. bishops face in their ministry, Pope Francis shared with them his own experience as a pastor and urged them to keep their eyes focused on Jesus and their hearts open to others. “Woe to us,” he said, “if we make of the cross a banner […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – Canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary, Blessed Junipero Serra, Pope Francis insisted a person’s faith is alive only when it is shared. Celebrating a late afternoon Mass outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Sept. 23, the pope declared the holiness of St. Junipero, founder of a string of missions […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
“Is it not enough,” she asked me earnestly, “to be a woman at home, caring for a family? Everyone around me has a job that enables her to contribute to her family financially. Even within the church, I’m bombarded every day with clarion calls to do more, to give more. And here I am doing […]
Local
By Catholic News Service
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (CNS) – Pope Francis arrived in the United States the late afternoon of Sept. 22 to begin his first apostolic journey as pontiff. His plane, an Alitalia jetliner, touched down at Joint Base Andrews near Washington at 3:51 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, nine minutes ahead of schedule. In the minutes before […]
National
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will officially welcome Pope Francis to the United States during a ceremony at the White House Sept. 23. About 20,000 people are expected to watch on the White House lawn. The pope will speak in English at this event, which will broadcast live at 9:15 a.m. The […]
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By Katie Scott
Deep peace, the kind that transforms the soul and ripples outward into the world, is not guaranteed in this life. Benedictine Sister Dolores Dean knows what it’s like to obtain such a gift, to lose it and then – nearly a lifetime later – come home to it for good. “It hasn’t always been easy, […]
