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By Ashleigh Buyers
There is nothing quite like cleaning a machete wound to make you realize you are not in Virginia anymore. For Laura Shaw, this was just one of the skills she acquired during a mission trip to Honduras in 2012. Growing up in the suburbs of Manassas, Shaw never imagined she’d go on a medical mission. […]
Movies
When a James Bond-like CIA field operative (Jude Law) becomes a casualty in the agency’s effort to bring down the ruthless heir (Rose Byrne) of an international crime dynasty, his devoted but previously desk-bound partner (Melissa McCarthy) goes undercover to avenge him by nabbing the evildoer. She’s aided, albeit ineptly, by the goodhearted officemate (Miranda […]
Columns
By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: I recently learned that the feast of Corpus Christi was inspired by a Eucharistic miracle. Can you please give more details about this? - A reader in Springfield
Columns
By Fr. Paul Scalia
Deep within our fallen human nature is that desire – indeed, insistence – to control. Ever since Adam and Eve grasped for the fruit, we have wanted to be in the know, to have a say, to “control our destiny.” Our technological culture exacerbates this desire by giving us a false sense of actually knowing […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
“Gridlock” along the Potomac – the difficulties the Congress has in getting things done, the difficulties the Congress and the White House have in cooperating to get things done, or both – is regularly deplored by pols, pundits and citizens alike. My contrarian view is that this kind of “gridlock” can serve useful public purposes, […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde announced clergy assignments last weekend. See the full list on page 2. Father Ronald J. Gripshover Jr. Father Ronald J. Gripshover Jr. will become parochial administrator of St. Lawrence Church in Alexandria. He was born in Lansing, Mich., March 16, 1966. He is the eldest of seven children. Father Gripshover […]
Global
By Barbara J. Fraser | Catholic News Service
LIMA, Peru – Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to send a strong moral message – one message that could make some readers uncomfortable, some observers say. “The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible […]
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By Zoey Di Mauro | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The crowd of people who will gather at Pope Francis’s open air Mass in Washington in September won’t be able to experience the interior beauty of the Basilica of the National Shine of the Immaculate Conception during the Mass. So the winning students of an altar design contest decided to bring the architecture […]
Pope Francis
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Anyone who has taken the wrong road in life can “turn back” and experience the mercy of Jesus, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of mostly young pilgrims about to set off on an overnight walk. Everyone has fallen and made mistakes, but is it important to “get up right away and […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – A sister from Ireland and a sister from New Zealand were rushed to a hospital in Rome June 8 after having spent a weekend trapped in an elevator without food or water. The 58-year-old Irish religious and the 68-year-old religious from New Zealand “are fine, but are not speaking to the press,” […]
