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By Dave Borowski
Crop rotation and irrigation are terms not usually associated with a suburban garden. But the “Busy Bee Garden” behind St. Ambrose School in Annandale uses that technology along with solar panels and a weather station to manage a sustainable organic garden. Even the name suggests sustainability, with bees helping to pollinate the plants. The garden […]
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By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – Syriac Catholic Archbishop Yohanna Moshe of Mosul, Iraq, called on the world’s governments to oust Islamic State militants from northern parts of the country so thousands of displaced Christians can return home. Speaking with the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need on the first anniversary of the Islamic State’s takeover […]
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The North American Syriac Symposium will be held at Catholic University in Washington June 21-24. The conference will bring together more than 100 professors, graduate students and scholars from around the world for discussion of the language, literature and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, which has its homeland in the Middle East. “A lot of […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Many spend their Saturday mornings sleeping in or cheering at their children’s sports games. But at Club 12 in Leesburg, one group of Catholics huddles up, pulls out their rosary beads and prays the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy to begin their weekly Calix Society meeting. Then they relate their trials and tribulations with alcohol. […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
On the eve of a forthcoming encyclical by Pope Francis on the environment and climate change, a new Pew Research Center survey finds U.S. Catholics’ views on global warming are broadly reflective of overall American public opinion; a solid majority believe that Earth is warming, but there is much more division over the cause and […]
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By Sarah Hinds | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The lives of religious sisters not only offer an example of holy living, but also healthy aging, according to recent studies. Several years ago, researcher David Snowdon published a book often dubbed “The Nun Study” which revealed that women religious generally live longer than other women. The 2001 book, Aging with Grace: What […]
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More than 800 teens in the Catholic Diocese of Arlington will give up a week of their summer vacation and head to Quicksburg to attend the 29th annual Diocesan WorkCamp. The teens will rebuild their neighbors homes, decks, wheelchair ramps, roofs and more. Each day is opened and closed with prayer, Mass and social and […]
National
By Chaz Muth | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The onetime stigma of being a Catholic for those seeking national office appears to have disappeared in the 2016 presidential election cycle since a record number of candidates have declared their candidacy or expressed an interest in running for the highest office in the country. Twelve Catholics have said they are interested in […]
Columns
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Children need to see their parents kiss each other, complement each other and resolve arguments peacefully, Pope Francis said. “Dear parents, your children need to discover by watching you that it is beautiful to love another,” the pope told parents participating in the annual pastoral conference of the Diocese of Rome. Parents […]
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By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Focusing on poverty and sacrificing for the poor are the heart of the Gospel, not signs of communism, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. Furthermore, if Christians don’t dig deep and generously open up their wallets, they do not have “genuine faith,” the pope said June 16 during the Mass in […]
