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By Catholic News Service
BETHESDA, Md. – Beau Biden, a Catholic who was former attorney general of Delaware and the oldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, died May 30 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda of brain cancer. He was 46. In a statement posted on the younger Biden’s website, the family said: “It is […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
In 1894, the Benedictine Sisters of Richmond received a great gift. In fact the offering was so large that they had to travel more than 100 miles to claim it. When they arrived in Bristow, they were greeted by acres of beautiful Virginia countryside known as Linton’s Ford, a great expanse of land given to […]
Pope Francis
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The road to salvation may be pitted with failures, but God uses them and overturns them to manifest his love for his people, said Pope Francis. Reflecting on the parable of the wicked tenants in the Gospel of Mark during morning Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae June 1, the pope said […]
Local
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A newly dedicated bas-relief sculpture at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington portrays Mary calming the troubled sea, with the North Star above her head. The image of Our Lady Star of the Sea “will become a point of spiritual pilgrimage for the people of the sea” […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Sometimes, Pope Francis said, the most important thing parents of a seriously ill child can do is to keep asking God, “Why?” A child of 2 or 3 years will torment his or her parents with a continual series of “whys,” the pope said. The little ones are not looking for answers […]
National
By Catholic News Service
LINCOLN, Neb. – Nebraska state senators overrode Gov. Pete Ricketts’ veto of a bill repealing capital punishment that had been supported by the state’s Catholic bishops. In a 30-19 vote May 27, the senators supported a bill that replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole. The bill had gained […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl has issued a new pastoral letter “about who we are as Catholics.” “We will reflect on our identity as disciples of Jesus – followers of Christ – adopted children of God,” he notes in the introduction. A key part of the pastoral looks at “our freedom to be […]
National
By David Gibson | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Abdulaziz Sachedina is a professor of Islamic studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is a practicing Muslim who feels close to his Christian friends, he told Catholic News Service. Muslims and Christians do, in fact, share values, he said. Sachedina discussed Muslim-Christian relationships in a speech May 24 at Jesuit-run […]
Global
By Jonathan Luxmoore | Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – Although no date has been set, church leaders in Poland hope Pope Francis will visit the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz during an August 2016 visit to Poland for World Youth Day. “We hope Pope Francis will come to Auschwitz and deliver a warning to the world by again demonstrating the […]
Columns
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Couples who are seeking to marry, even those who have lived together, should value their engagement period as a time to grow in mature love and in profound knowledge of each other, said Pope Francis. The pope urged couples not to rush into marriage. Maturation in love before marriage is a slow […]
