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By Thomas Craughwell
The story of the apostle known as “doubting Thomas” begins after the first Easter. In fear for their lives after the crucifixion of Jesus, the 11 surviving apostles (Judas had hanged himself on Good Friday) had locked themselves in the room they had used for the Last Supper. On Easter evening, the Risen Christ appeared […]
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By Dave Borowski
You could tell that the children were having fun June 18 at Vacation Bible Camp at St. John the Evangelist School in Warrenton. Laughter and excited giggles poured from the gym where children played “Simon says”, running across the gym floor following “Simon’s” orders. It was the same joyous noise when the campers worked together […]
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By Dave Borowski
Marian Homes, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that provides homes for people with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, officially opened its third home June 25 at a ceremony at the Gresham Street location in north Springfield. The new home, Queen of Peace, will house five men. Four are in residence now, and the fifth will be […]
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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 Nora Hamerman | for The Catholic Herald
The Catholic community in Clinton, Md., will celebrate the first Catholic baptism of Native Americans in the original 13 Colonies July 5. It took place 375 years ago in 1640 when Jesuit Father Andrew White baptized the Tayac (emperor) of the Piscataway Indians. A mural by a Catholic artist from Virginia, Henry Wingate, records the […]
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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 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 […]
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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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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 Bill Dodds | Catholic News Service
We froze our first summer in Seattle. I had just finished sixth grade when my family left the Midwest for this strange new land. It never got really warm during the days. And the nights were always cold. Then, too, there were the number of gray days versus the number of sunny days. I don’t […]
