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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Parishioners at All Saints Church in Manassas commemorated the feast of the Divine Savior of the World with a procession, rosary and music following the 1:30 p.m. Spanish Mass Aug. 9. El Salvador, which means “the Savior,” is named after Divino Salvador del Mundo. His feast is a national holiday. Many Masses are celebrated throughout […]
National
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — As lecterns go, it is strictly utilitarian, a simple walnut stand with none of the ornamentation commonly found in mid-19th-century furnishings. Yet it has a distinguished past and is about to have a distinguished future. At a news conference Aug. 7 at the Union League of Philadelphia, Robert Ciaruffoli, president of the […]
Arts
By Lyndsey Raynor
Arena Stage in Washington beautifully presents an exceptional production about what it is like to be a teenager with mental health issues, in a new musical, tackling depression, anxiety and suicide. “Dear Evan Hansen” is a modern, untraditional drama providing a real life lesson about the effect of our actions on family and friends, while […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Paul Inwood and 89 other composers around the world had two months to submit their compositions of the music for the official hymn of Year of Mercy. Inwood, a British composer whose work is a staple of many parish liturgies across North America, said he learned in June that his music […]
National
By Lou Baldwin | Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA – Approximately 2,000 members of the Knights of Columbus from around the country and abroad gathered Aug. 4 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia to open the Catholic fraternal organization’s 133rd Supreme Convention. The theme for the three-day convention was “Endowed by Their Creator with Life and Liberty,” paraphrasing the famous words penned […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Today, it has often been said that most Catholics have already made up their minds about contraception. Either one believes, as the Catholic Church does, that contraception is intrinsically evil and, therefore, must not be practiced or one believes that contraception is permissible, given, among other reasons, the diverse economic, political and societal pressures that […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics who have divorced and are civilly remarried “are not, in fact, excommunicated — they are not excommunicated — and they absolutely must not be treated as if they were,” Pope Francis said. Resuming his Wednesday general audiences Aug. 5 after a month’s break, Pope Francis returned to the series of […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See believes Pope Francis is not traveling to the United States in September to scold anyone, but to challenge the country’s people to live up to their ideals. “I don’t think he’s coming to the United States to antagonize, to criticize, to call out people,” Ken […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The head of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee Aug. 3 urged U.S. senators to take the federal money that goes to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and instead fund women’s health care providers that do not promote abortion. “It has long been troubling to many Americans that the nation’s largest abortion network, […]
National
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – When Pope Francis makes a stop at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia in September as part of his U.S. visit, it may seem like part of the pope’s usual routine. His visits to prisons as part of his pastoral journeys to other countries has become part and parcel of the pope’s style, […]
