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By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – An Associated Press survey of abortion in the United States this decade has revealed that the number of abortions has gone down by 12 percent since 2010. The news was welcomed by pro-life advocates. “It’s important to realize, first of all, that the factors accounting for this are multiple, complex and often hard […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Whether you still stick to books or magazines or get everything online, Pope Francis said all media should encourage and edify – not enslave. “Back in my day – the Stone Age – when a book was good, you read it; when the book was bad for you, you chucked it,” he […]
Global
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Conflict and cruelty must be fought with tenderness, forgiveness and bearing Christ’s cross, Pope Francis said. Bosnia-Herzegovina has experienced “a history of cruelty” and one that is seen in many conflicts around the world today, the pope told a gathering of priests, religious and seminarians in Sarajevo’s cathedral June 6. The best […]
Local
By Julia Willis
After many years of study and vocational discernment rooted in faith, seven men were ordained to the priesthood and one man to the transitional diaconate by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde during a combined ordination Mass June 6 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. Hundreds of priests, deacons, seminarians, family members and […]
Local
The Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective on Thursday, June 25, 2015, except where noted differently. Pastors Reverend Edward C. Hathaway – from Pastor of the Church of Saint Veronica in Chantilly to Pastor of the Church of Saint Mary in Alexandria. Reverend John D. Kelly […]
Movies
Unstable yet genuinely poignant romantic comedy about a military contractor (Bradley Cooper) with a checkered past who returns to Hawaii where his ex-girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) resides and where his billionaire boss (Bill Murray) is funding a mysterious space project for the U.S. government. When he falls in love with an Air Force captain (Emma Stone), […]
Movies
An eye-popping, ear-splitting 3-D chronicle directed by Brad Peyton of a California earthquake when the eponymous tectonic fault line splits open. A seismology professor (Paul Giamatti) invents a system to predict earthquakes before they happen. It works, and with the help of a television reporter (Archie Panjabi), he sounds the alarm from Los Angeles to […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Since childhood, Deacon Dort Bigg dreamed of becoming a professional violinist. “But God had a different plan,” said Deacon Bigg, who studied at The Julliard School in New York after graduating from DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md., in 2001. A medical condition delayed his graduation by two years. During that time, he said he […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Deacon Kevin Dansereau wasn’t intent on taking an office job straight out of college. After graduating with a degree in technical and scientific communications from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, he applied for the Peace Corps. But it wasn’t until he arrived in a rural town in Niger that he learned his assignment would involve […]
