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By Katie Bahr
Priests, religious and Catholics from around the diocese attended the dedication ceremony for the St. Rose of Lima Priests’ Retirement Villa in Annandale last week. The 15,000 square-foot building consists of eight apartments that include bedrooms, living rooms, kitchenettes and storage rooms. The building also has a gym, guest suite, kitchen, parlor, community room, dining […]
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By Thomas Craughwell
The dog with the loaf of bread in its mouth has become St. Rocco's emblem, appearing beside him in virtually every picture or statue of the saint.
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Entertaining and inventive 3-D spy adventure – seamless blending live action, puppetry, and computer animation – in which rogue feline agent Kitty Galore (voice of Bette Midler) threatens to make the world her “personal scratching post” by unleashing the “Call of the Wild,” a screech that serves as a weapon of mass destruction. Led by […]
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After losing his younger brother (Charlie Tahan) in a car accident for which he was indirectly responsible, a gifted sailboat racer (Zac Efron), racked by guilt and grief, becomes the caretaker of the cemetery where his sibling rests, on the edge of which, briefly each evening, he is mysteriously able to see and communicate with […]
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By Richard Szczepanowski
WASHINGTON – Knights of Columbus are called to evangelize, to be charitable and to serve as instruments of God’s love, Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl said Aug. 3 at a Mass opening the Catholic fraternal organization’s 128th annual supreme convention. “We are to be heralds of the Gospel of life – from conception to natural […]
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Well-acted but thoroughly violent action thriller in which, after being accused by a Russian intelligence officer (Daniel Olbrychski) of being a double agent, a highly skilled CIA operative (Angelina Jolie) goes on the run, leaving her colleagues (principally Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor) scrambling to uncover whether she is friend or foe, even as they […]
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By Scott Alessi
TRENTON, N.J. – Upon learning in May that Pope Benedict XVI had selected him to become the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, it took then-Father David M. O’Connell only “about two seconds” to decide upon his episcopal motto. And the words that the Vincentian priest chose – “ministrare non ministrari” (“to serve and […]
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By Patricia Bartos
PITTSBURGH – Father Patrick Rager, who as a newly ordained priest of the Pittsburgh Diocese served just two years in a parish assignment before a devastating illness forced him into a wheelchair and eventual paralysis, died July 20 at age 50. He died at home in West Homestead, where for the past 20 years he […]
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By Carol Glatz
ROME – Pope Benedict XVI has given his new papal delegate broad powers of authority over the Legionaries of Christ as part of a major Vatican-led reform of the order. The delegate, Italian Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, has authority over the order’s current superiors and can even override the order’s constitutions. He will have a […]
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Gentle, winning comedy about a good-hearted but accident-prone 9-year-old (Joey King) whose antics annoy her more conventional teen sister (Selena Gomez) as their happy existence in an idyllic Portland, Ore., suburb is temporarily overshadowed by their accountant dad’s (John Corbett) loss of his job, and the resulting mild tensions between him and their mom (Bridget […]
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Pope Leo XIV
6/2/26
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