Search Results
National
By Daniel Payne
The Supreme Court June 13 unanimously ruled against a physician-led challenge to the abortion pill, rejecting an attempt by advocates to impose stricter regulations on the drug. The court said in its ruling that the plaintiffs, represented by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, lacked standing to challenge U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of the […]
Local
More than 100 people gathered for a June 3 lecture by Msgr. Charles Pope, pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Church in Washington, on the souls in purgatory at St. John the Beloved Academy in McLean. At the event, held in partnership with the Pro Animis Sanctis in Purgatorio (Holy Souls Purgatorial Prayer Society), attendees first […]
National
By Lily Nguyen Dunkle
Knights of Columbus Council No. 694 in Petersburg did not expect to find itself at the center of local and national headlines. Grand Knight Joseph LeClerc said he and his brother Knights wanted to avoid the spotlight; they simply wanted to honor service members who died for the country. Their Memorial Day Mass at Poplar […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage concluded its visit to the nation’s capital June 9. Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory celebrated a closing Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, concelebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, who led a Eucharistic procession after Mass winding through the basilica’s Great Upper Church. Cardinal Gregory […]
Local
Students and seminarians raced across the Basilica School of St. Mary in Alexandria for the 18th annual Seminarian Sprint fundraiser May 30. Students of all ages ran around the school and cheered each other on to support seminarians through the SEEF (Seminarian Education Endowment Fund), an endowment created to encourage support of seminarian education in […]
National
By Tyler Arnold
The Catholic University of America in Washington debuted its 25-acre solar array June 3 — one of the largest solar farms in the region — in the spirit of Pope Francis’ environmental efforts envisioned in the papal encyclical “Laudato Si’.” “You have to actually do things to demonstrate your commitment (to the environment),” Robert Specter, […]
Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? Our Franciscan connection and heritage is illuminated in our parish’s explicit mission, “Live the Gospel, celebrating our Franciscan spirituality in the midst of a diverse and ever-changing global culture.” Home today to 8,000 parishioners, St. Francis of Assisi Church and School were born from a request made by U.S. Navy […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
I saw her weeping in the parking lot after a beautiful graduation ceremony and party. Her husband held her as she cried, and when she looked up at him, he kissed her soundly and then quietly rocked her as she burrowed into his shirt. I was glad for her — glad she had him, glad […]
Bishop's Columns
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
It’s graduation season and as happens every year at this time, high school and college students from throughout our diocese cross a stage to receive their diplomas, signaling the end to one chapter in their educational formation and the beginning of the rest of their lives. Whether they are leaving one school to begin studying […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
In the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we find an amazing truth: Christ loves us and wants to embrace, heal and strengthen us. The month of June, whose 30 days are dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, is not long enough to consider well the astounding love that the merciful Jesus has for […]
