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Congress urged to ensure ‘fair and just wages’ for all workers

By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Congress can promote the common good and contribute to a more just society by ensuring the federal minimum wage promotes family formation and stability, said Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski and Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president of Catholic Charities USA, in a July 27 letter to Congress. “An economy thrives only when it […]
Pope Francis

Papal parenting guide: Francis delivers his own how-to for families

By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis knows the family is made up of real people living in the real world, which is why he often gives down-to-earth advice. The Catholic Church has long taught that the family is a school of humanity – the first and best place to learn about love and respect. In fact, […]
National

Statement of Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde on the Death of Cardinal Baum

By Bishop Paul S. Loverde
The clergy, men and women living the consecrated life and the lay faithful join me in offering to His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl and to all who form the Archdiocesan Church of Washington the support of our fervent prayer and heartfelt sympathy on the death of Cardinal William Wakefield Baum, the third Archbishop of Washington. […]
Columns

Papal trip expenses

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. The pope will visit the United States, and he will speak about the treatment of the poor. Before his visit, many millions of dollars will probably be spent to pretty up the churches in three cities, as well as the surrounding areas. Some time ago, the same thing happened in San Antonio. Whole neighborhoods […]
Local

The ‘hat man’

By Andrew Stevans | For The Catholic Herald
Anyone would think it a full life to be a man raised in a family of 11 children, who joined the Navy at 17, progressed to non-commissioned officer, obtained a competitive fleet appointment to the Naval Academy and later retired a full Commander: But not Pete Barnett. For many years, each Saturday morning at the […]
Columns

A patron saint for cooks

By Thomas J. Craughwell

In 258, Emperor Valerian began a fresh round of anti-Christian persecution. Just days after the emperor had published his edict outlawing Christianity, a troop of Roman soldiers raided the catacomb of Praetextatus on the Appian Way, arresting Pope St. Sixtus II who had just finished celebrating Mass. When the soldiers burst in, they found the pope seated on a chair, surrounded by his seven deacons and subdeacons, as he taught the Catholic faith to his congregation. The Romans arrested Sixtus along with the deacons Felicissimus and Agapitus, and the subdeacons Januarius, Magnus, Vincent and Stephen. But for some inexplicable reason they did not take the deacon Lawrence. As the troops led their prisoners away, Lawrence, in tears, clutched at Sixtus' robes and said, "Where are you going, priest, without your deacon? Where are you going, father, without your son?" Sixtus comforted Lawrence, saying that in a few days they would be reunited.

Local

Play ball!

By Julia Willis
Before running onto the baseball field, children from across the diocese tied their cleats, stretched their muscles and made the Sign of the Cross during a one-day Catholic Baseball Camp at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax July 24. Hosted by Catholic Athletes for Christ, the event provided kids between the ages of 8 […]
Local

For military chaplains, ‘a call within a call’

By Daniel O’shea | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – This fall the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services plans to hold its first discernment gathering for Catholic priests to encourage them to consider becoming military chaplains. The archdiocese regularly holds several retreats a year for young men who are thinking about the priesthood and the chaplaincy, but this will be the first […]
Pope Francis

Go to the source

By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – On exam day, geology students might be handed a mystery rock to study, scratch and peer at, looking for clues to identify it and hypothesize about its origins and composition. On exam day at the Vatican Secret Archives, student-scholars get handed an obscure medieval manuscript to decipher, transcribe, analyze and hypothesize about […]
Local

Intercultural hospitality at Queen of Apostles

By Christine Stoddard
To really know a culture, you can’t begin and end with a guidebook. You have to spend time with the people. That’s why six high school students and five teachers from the Stella Maris School in Madrid, Spain, spent the morning of July 21 playing beanbag toss and making lollipop flowers with senior citizens at […]

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