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By George Weigel
Like most denizens of Washington, I pay too little attention to the sites other Americans make sacrifices to visit. Earlier this month, though, prompted by reading James Scott’s Target Tokyo, a comprehensive history of the famous Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, I strolled through Arlington National Cemetery in search of three graves. They were […]
Columns
By John Garvey
“How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.” These words that open the Book of Lamentations describe Jerusalem after the Babylonian conquest. They have renewed meaning for the Christians of the Middle […]
Movies
The trials and tribulations of a college a cappella group continue in this sequel to the 2012 film, directed and co-produced by Elizabeth Banks, who also reprises her role of a snarky pageant official. When the group is banned from national competition by virtue of a scandal by one of its singers (Rebel Wilson), its […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis and members of the council of the Synod of Bishops met May 25-26 to review input from around the world for October’s synod on the family and made their final suggestions for the synod’s working document. The office of the synod’s general secretary will incorporate the suggestions and have the […]
Columns
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Despite reports in the Italian press that Blessed Teresa of Kolkata’s canonization has been set for Sept. 4, 2016, a Vatican spokesman says the date is only hypothetical and cannot be confirmed. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi issued a statement May 19 in response to media reports that the founder of the Missionaries […]
Columns
By Thomas Craughwell
As a young man, Justin was an avid student of Greek and Roman philosophy. Initially he was attracted to the works of Plato, then Pythagorus, and then the Stoics, but ultimately Justin found the works of the ancient philosophers unsatisfactory. He would write that he had been searching for “a vision of God,” and in […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
Humidity hangs heavy today and the temperature has crept toward 90; it’s undeniably feeling like summer in Virginia. As I sit with a calendar that has palpably shifted from the frenetic end-of-school-year busyness to a more sanguine, relaxed busyness, I’m making a promise to myself. Summer will be for self-care. Summer will be for strengthening […]
Movies
Borrowing the name but little else from the futuristic-themed section of Disneyland and other Disney parks, this delightful science-fiction film is great fun for the entire family, directed and co-written by Brad Bird. A young woman (Britt Robertson) is recruited by a mysterious robot (Raffey Cassidy) for a mission to save both Earth and the […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
“How many of you know how to use a pencil?” asked Mary Baldwin, principal of St. Andrew the Apostle School in Clifton at an all-school assembly in the parish hall May 20. Hands of children from kindergarten through eighth grade shot up in the air – stretching, wiggling, waving. After a few moments, the students […]
National
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – “Despite 50 years of ‘Nostra Aetate,'” the Second Vatican Council’s document on interreligious relations, “we still don’t know each other well enough,” said French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Speaking last week about Catholic-Muslim relations, Cardinal Tauran added, “Most of the problems we face are problems of […]
