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By Dave Borowski
Like Easter, Corpus Christi is a moveable feast. It’s celebrated the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, which this year was June 4. Most parishes push the celebration to the following Sunday. To accommodate their students, St. Timothy School in Chantilly celebrated the feast June 5. Students from the school, with the help of Amy Powers, a […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
Sometimes the opening is the hardest part. I’ve been sitting here for quite some time, trying to come up with a clever or profound or even just passable way to open an article about Bruce/Caitlin Jenner. It isn’t easy. And so I turn to Facebook for distraction. I find no distraction, but rather that Vanity […]
National
By Catholic News Service
HAGATNA, Guam — Guam’s archbishop said a judge’s June 5 decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the U.S. territory was “a defeat” not only “for Christian principles” but “for our island and the whole of humanity.” “The recognition of a same-sex union, as marriage, destroys the basic fabric of society, and will destroy human beings in […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
There are days (and nights, lots of nights) when mothers feel as if they are toiling in obscurity. Who sees the things that require all our time and attention? Who hears us begging a baby to go to sleep because the clock is ticking into the wee hours of the morning and our sleep time […]
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By Dave Borowski
By all measures, Lydia Ann Kraiger is an outstanding young woman. Throughout middle and high school, Kraiger, 16, was active in her parish, St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, and her community. She volunteered at the Arlington diocesan WorkCamp, maintained a 4.07 GPA at Oakton High School and has been member of the National […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Efforts to convince people that the differences between male and female are simply social conventions, which limit individual freedom, ignore the fact that men and women need each other in order to understand themselves, Pope Francis said. “The differences between man and woman are not of the order of opposition or subordination, […]
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By Julia Willis | Catholic Herald Intern
Pulling into a parking spot at Tall Timbers Marina in St. Mary’s County, Md., March 27, Michael Clark was looking forward to spending a peaceful weekend with his wife. But what initially started as a “minivacation” quickly became an emergency when the varsity swim coach at Marymount University in Arlington realized a woman had fallen […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has approved new procedures for the Vatican to investigate and judge claims of “abuse of office” by bishops who allegedly failed to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sex abuse. The procedures will include a new “judicial section” within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that has a […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The hidden heroes of this world are those family members who still go to work and get the job done after staying up all night tending to a sick loved one, Pope Francis said. In fact, the family “has always been the closest ‘hospital.’ And still today in many parts of the […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
Last month, the Fairfax County School Board voted 10-1 to become the only school system in Virginia to add “gender identity” to its anti-discrimination policy. The board is now preparing its next step – a vote later this month on broad changes to its Family Life Education Program, including lessons related to gender identity beginning […]
