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By Christine Stoddard
When Holy Spirit Church in Annandale was founded in 1964, Richmond Bishop John Russell could not have anticipated that the parish would become a gathering place for Eritrean refugees 50 years later. Eritrea separated from Ethiopia in 1991 following fighting that dated back to the 1960s. The country received international recognition of its independence in […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In a benediction delivered at Normandy in France during events to mark the 71st anniversary of D-Day, a U.S. archbishop prayed that God would “help us never to forget the sacrifices of this place and to be energetic so that war is never renewed.” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Father Jose Eugenio Hoyos, director of Arlington’s Spanish Apostolate, attended “Called to Holiness for a New Evangelization,” the third worldwide priests’ retreat, June 9-12 at the Papal Archbasilica of St. John the Lateran in Rome, where clerics from five continents reflected upon the Charismatic Renewal and new evangelization. Speakers and celebrants included Pope Francis, the […]
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By Stacy Rausch
“What’s that thing on your wrist?” I hear this question a lot in reference to the Fitbit Flex strapped to my wrist day and night. The Fitbit is a fitness tracker that does so much more than count your steps – like the small, less accurate pedometers you may have clipped to your waistband at […]
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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 […]
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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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By Soren Johnson
The inexorable passage of time that any father faces is, well, humbling. Our children race through the days and years, and we wonder what sticks. But as anyone knows, we carry memories of our dads with us. Heaven knows why only a few moments – words, gestures, embraces – arise from the dross of time. […]
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By Anto Akkara | Catholic News Service
BANGALORE, India – Not every bishop is a cartoonist. But Bishop Stephen Rotluanga of Aizawl in northeast India is. He has become known as the “cartoonist bishop of India.” That’s because at the end of every major gathering of the Indian bishops, Bishop Rotluanga would summarize the proceedings succinctly and strikingly in a large cartoon. […]
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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. […]
