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By Dave Borowski
“I was always very curious about their lives,” said Daughter of St. Paul Sister Laura Fidelis Nolin about her early encounters with religious sisters in Vermont. She grew up in Newport, a small town on Lake Memphremagog, close to the Canadian border. When she was 12, she took piano lessons from the sisters who served […]
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By Dave Borowski
Father John Cregan was born in Bronx, N.Y., Nov. 13 1939, to Christopher and Mary Cregan. He graduated from Fordham University and then served more than 20 years in the Marine Corps, serving tours in North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Cuba, Japan and Vietnam. He felt the call to the priesthood in 1969 while lying in […]
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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 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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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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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 […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis once said that a person who “puts his hand in his pocket to show that he helps the church while with the other hand steals from the state, from the poor” is not simply a sinner, but is corrupt. While someone may think it is clever to find a way […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
ROME – “Laudato Si’,” the title Pope Francis chose for his encyclical on the environment, comes from a hymn of praise by St. Francis of Assisi that emphasizes being in harmony with God, with other creatures and with other human beings, said the head of the Franciscan order. Sitting under towering trees, surrounded by potted […]
National
By Shannon Bowen
PHILADELPHIA – Works of art including paintings, sculptures and rare artifacts from the Vatican will be on display just in time for the World Meeting of Families and the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia this September. More than 200 works of art, 40 percent of which have never been shown publicly anywhere, are part […]
