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By Fr. Frank Pavone
Abuse victims often use the phrase “Silent No More” to indicate their response to being victimized. It may be surprising to some in our society that as our nation reaches another anniversary of the abortion decisions Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton, that women from coast to coast are uniting under the banner of […]
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By Reviewed Brother Jeffrey Gros, Fsc
“The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa and Asia – and How It Died” by Philip Jenkins. HarperOne (San Francisco, 2008). 315 pp., $26.95. The Iraq War has brought the presence of Christians in what was once Mesopotamia and Babylon to global attention. However, what […]
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
BALTIMORE – One day this fall, John Harbaugh walked into a barbershop near his home. As the wholesome-looking 46-year-old sat in the barber’s chair, a young hairdresser carefully snipped his closely cropped brown hair. “What are you doing this weekend?” she asked casually. “Oh, I don’t know,” he replied, “a little bit of this and […]
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St. Agnes (died c. 305) Feast day: Jan. 21 These days, invoking God in the Girl Scout Promise is optional. Nonetheless, for Catholics and perhaps members of other Christian churches St. Agnes is still on their books as the Girl Scouts’ patron saint. St. Agnes was chosen not only because she was barely in her […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Michael C. Kelly, 53, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Purcellville, died suddenly Dec. 31 after a tree fell on him. According to published reports, the tree fell on him as he and another driver were trying to remove a large branch that had fallen onto Harmony Church Road in Loudoun County. […]
Movies
Seamy but powerful character portrait of an aging professional wrestler (a superb Mickey Rourke) whose marginal career is threatened by a heart attack, as he initiates a tentative romance with a stripper (Marisa Tomei) and makes fumbling efforts to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). Director Darren Aronofsky’s study of loneliness, set in […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The traditional decorations of Christmas are reminders that the light and love of Jesus Christ bring new life to all who wait in darkness, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope spoke about Christmas trees as symbols of new life Dec. 12 when he met a delegation from Austria, which donated the […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
It’s a sight to see: a real, live Santa Claus on his knees, hands folded, inclining his head reverently toward statues of the Holy Family. Then, still kneeling, he becomes “maestro Santa” — leading children and their parents not in “Jingle Bells” or “Up on the Housetop,” but in a verse each of “Oh Come, All ye Faithful” and “Silent Night.”
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By Katie Bahr
As an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Daryl Glick didn’t really know what he wanted to do with his life. He was an idealist though, thanks to his Catholic upbringing in Michigan, and believed he could make a difference in the world. “I felt like God wanted me to do something […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
(This is reprinted from the 25th anniversary issue of the Arlington Diocese in August 1999.) Arlington’s second bishop, the Most Rev. John R. Keating, served Catholics in Northern Virginia from Aug. 4, 1983, until his death on March 22, 1998. Pope Paul VI established the Arlington Diocese on Aug. 13, 1974. Bishop Keating succeeded Bishop […]
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