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By Elizabeth Foss
Sometimes – often, really – our children teach us our most important lessons. I think maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be; the most important lessons and the hardest ones for us to master are the ones that they grasp before we do. And so they lead us by their examples, and we find […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Staff Writer Katie Scott’s second place award for individual excellence as a writer led the way as the Arlington Catholic Herald received 15 awards in the 2015 Catholic Press Association awards competition. The sample of Scott’s diverse writing this year included: a report on binge drinking among young adults; how social service agencies are dealing […]
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By Patricia Zapor | catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In a June 29 order, the Supreme Court continued to shield several Pennsylvania religious institutions from having to provide employees with health care coverage that includes contraceptives. The order in a case filed by the bishops and the Dioceses of Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania, their charitable institutions and a school said the government […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In another in a series of bitterly divided end-of-term cases, the Supreme Court June 29 upheld the execution protocol used by Oklahoma and several other states. The 5-4 ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito upheld lower courts that said the use of the drug midazolam in lethal injection does not violate Eighth Amendment […]
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By Julie Asher | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Analyzing the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s June 26 same-sex marriage ruling for the Catholic Church at the national, state and local levels will take time, said Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore. It has implications for “hundreds, if not thousands” of laws at all levels, and there is “a difficult road ahead […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated Mass at St. Ambrose Church in Annandale June 27 as part of an event called “Religious liberty … for how long? How to prepare spiritually for the coming persecution.” The event marked the annual Fortnight for Freedom, a USCCB initiative for religious liberty. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling the […]
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Fr. Philip Majka, a retired priest of the Arlington Diocese who serves as vice president of the U.S. Conference of Airport Chaplains, recently met Pope Francis during the International Airport Chaplains Meeting in Rome. Fr. Majka celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood earlier this year.
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By Elizabeth Wong Barnsteadâ¦catholic News Service
DETROIT – People who are looking to gain a new perspective on the world should consider traveling instead of continuously putting it off. That’s the advice of John Findlater, a former Catholic school teacher in the Archdiocese of Detroit who now does educational consulting and has arranged more than 50 trips and pilgrimages abroad. For […]
Movies
Splendid animated comedy, founded on strong values, in which an 11-year-old girl’s (voice of Kaitlyn Dias) personified emotions – principally Joy (voice of Amy Poehler) and Sadness (voiced by Phyllis Smith) – struggle to help her cope with the crisis brought on by her family’s move from Minnesota to San Francisco. Aided by top-notch supporting […]
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Humans are mere dinosaur fodder in this extension of the $2 billion-grossing sci-fi franchise that dates back to 1993’s “Jurassic Park,” Steven Spielberg’s wildly popular adaptation of Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel. The potential victims of the latest crop of genetically recreated prehistoric predators who, for a price, can be observed at the resort of the […]
