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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 […]
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: (The) Catholic Herald had an article about the May Crowning at St. William of York (Church) in Stafford. (When I was) growing up, my parish never had such events. I never experienced them until moving to the Diocese of Arlington. What is the background for this devotion? – A reader in Alexandria A: The […]
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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 […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – “Mission is a passion for Jesus and at the same time a passion for His people,” Pope Francis said in his message for World Mission Sunday. The two concerns always go hand in hand, He said, because just as a Christian knows others need to hear the Gospel, he or she knows […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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By Christine Stoddard
The Arlington Diocese participated in the country’s first Hindu-Catholic dialogue overseen by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue May 23 at Durga Hindu Temple in Fairfax Station. PCID President, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, presided as the distinguished guest, with leaders and scholars from both faiths reiterating the need for mutual respect not just in India but […]
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Father John M. O’Donohue (second from right), pastor of Holy Spirit Church in Annandale, celebrates a Memorial Day Mass at Fairfax Memorial Park in Fairfax May 25. Some 700 people attended the Mass, which was offered especially for the repose of the souls of those who died in service to their country. Pictured (above, from […]
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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
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 […]
