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By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has published new norms for the church to discern alleged supernatural phenomena, such as Marian apparitions and mystical visions, which streamline the discernment process for bishops, allow the Vatican to avoid making definitive judgments on the authenticity of the events and reaffirm that Catholics are not obliged to believe in […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is expecting some 70,000 children between the ages of 5 and 12 and their chaperones to fill Rome’s Olympic Stadium for the opening events of the first World Children’s Day May 25 and to join Pope Francis for Mass in St. Peter’s Square the next morning. Franciscan Father Enzo Fortunato, […]
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By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Barry C. Knestout
We are pleased that Governor Youngkin has vetoed SB 237/HB 609 and SB 238/HB 819. These bills threatened to compel organizations to provide and pay for contraceptives and even some abortion-inducing drugs and devices against their deeply and sincerely held beliefs. In SB 237/HB 609, the asserted “right” to contraception was alarmingly broad: It would […]
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By Marguerita Kallassy
A Lebanese Catholic man has created a giant rosary that floats upon the Mediterranean waves. Joe Abdel Sater, a swimming instructor in the seaside town of Bouar, built the world’s largest rosary on the ocean May 11 — with the help of family and friends — on the feast of Our Lady of the Seas. […]
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By Lucia A. Silecchia
“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.” So goes a line from the prelude to “Getting to Know You,” one of the songs that punctuates the classic musical “The King and I.” After many years as a teacher, I can vouch for the truth of this observation. I am particularly reminded […]
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By Jim Hale
John Cannon doesn’t do things half-hearted. After earning an MBA from Harvard University and a master’s in politics and international relations from Oxford University, he became an investment banker at 26 and started his own consulting firm two years later. “I was a high achiever, chasing a lot of success in my life and was […]
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By Jim Hale
It was 1976, and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was 19 years old when he arrived on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. Forty-eight years later, Bishop Burbidge returned May 15 to the place where he spent eight years in priestly formation, to receive an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters, presented by […]
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By Jim Hale
Devoted baseball fans regard Vin Scully among the greatest, if not the greatest baseball broadcaster of all time. He was the voice of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years. Kevin O’Malley wants the world to know that Scully’s Catholic faith had everything to do with his popularity and success. “He was the nicest man […]
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By Anna Harvey
In today’s culture, conversations about the environment feel pessimistic or even apocalyptic, said Commissioned by Christ volunteer Marilyn Kott. But in the Arlington diocese, the CBC’s Laudato Si’ Seven Goals Faith Journey approaches those conversations from a place of encouragement and joy: “The environmental news is not good, but it doesn’t help to despair over […]
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