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By Gretchen R. Crowe
As part of her daily role, Kathy Madsen, the director of the local branch of the international pregnancy support program offers pregnant women confidential help, counseling, prenatal information, adoption information and an all-around person to lean on.
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By Lisa M. Petsche
Caring for an aging relative involves physical, psychological, emotional and financial demands. It can be particularly challenging when the person has heavy hands-on needs, a difficult personality or mental impairment. Caregivers may experience a variety of distressing emotions along the way. The most common ones are as follows. Guilt – because, unlike their relative, they […]
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A gala fund-raiser for Food for the Poor to be held at the Waterford at Fair Oaks April 25 has been canceled. Organizers announced in last week’s Catholic Herald that NBC journalists Ann Curry and Chris Matthews had been named honorary co-chairs of the first ever event in Virginia. Proceeds were to benefit Food for […]
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By George Weigel
George F. Will calls Mary Eberstadt “intimidatingly intelligent.” George must be easily intimidated these days, because Mary is one of the nicest (and funniest) people I know. She’s also our premier analyst of American cultural foibles and follies, with a keen eye for oddities that illuminate just how strange the country’s moral culture has become. […]
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Affable animated comedy-adventure in which a trio of kindly monsters (voices of Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie and Will Arnett) led by a once-ordinary woman (voice of Reese Witherspoon) who became a giant after being struck by a meteor, are released from government captivity in the custody of a gung-ho general (voice of Keifer Sutherland) and […]
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Reasonably effective, allegedly fact-based chiller about a Catholic couple (Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan) who rent a former funeral home near the hospital where their teenage son (Kyle Gallner) is being treated for cancer, only to find themselves in a specter-ridden maelstrom, eventually turning for help to a clergyman (Elias Koteas) versed in the occult. […]
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By Katie Bahr
You might already know what icons look like – found in churches and museums around the world, they are religious images of Jesus, Mary or a saint painted on wooden panels, usually featuring golden halos. They are beautiful, but have you ever stopped to think how they were made? Participants in a recent icon painting […]
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By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput commiserated with journalists who cover religion about the vitriolic hate mail they and he receive when they address topics such as who should receive the Eucharist. In a March 17 round table with religion reporters sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, Archbishop […]
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By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s executive order reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research represents “a sad victory of politics over science and ethics,” Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said shortly after the March 9 signing of the order at the White House. The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ […]
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By Dave Borowski
Scott Brown, choir director at St. Ann Church in Arlington, has worked in some of the most dangerous places in the world. He’s helped put countries reeling from war and financial instability back on a solid economic path. Although the connection between financial systems and dangerous places may appear tenuous, it’s very real. The Princeton […]
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Pope Leo XIV
6/2/26
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