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By Carol Glatz
VENICE, Italy — The rusted wrought iron frame and grate of an old well became a garden of crocheted flowers inside the courtyard of the Giudecca women’s prison in Venice. The handmade garlands also adorned the archways’ brick columns and copper drainpipes. Some 80 female detainees, prison staff and volunteers applauded and smiled when Pope […]
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By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — While misusing modern forms of media dulls the mind, games like checkers are a simple way to stimulate one’s intellect and foster community, Pope Francis said. Checkers “is a game that exercises (one’s) logical ability,” the pope told members of the Italian Checkers Foundation April 26. “And there is a need for […]
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Porto Charities’ second annual advocacy awards gala drew more than 400 people for a joyful evening at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria April 20. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge concelebrated Mass with Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde; Father Jamie Workman, diocesan vicar general; and others. Students and young adults of all abilities served as altar […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics discussed, Pope Francis said. With the second synod assembly scheduled for October, the pope said the synod process is approaching its “most challenging and important” stage — the point at […]
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During the 2024 Virginia General Assembly session, state senators and delegates cast key votes on critical issues impacting human life, dignity, and the common good. The Virginia Catholic Conference, the public policy agency representing Virginia’s Catholic bishops and their two dioceses, released a report on the session April 24. The report contains three charts: A […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope and love emphasize a connection to other people fueled by belief in God and reliance on prayer, Pope Francis said. “The Christian is never alone. He or she does good not […]
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
For one brief moment at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the hopes of the world seemed concentrated on a single man standing alone outside the massive Duomo di Milano in Italy. Andrea Bocelli, one of the most acclaimed tenors of his time, kept his arms at his sides and remained motionless as his powerful […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group began to pray for a miracle. Pope Francis recognized the healing of the man, “Paulo G.,” in Uberlandia, Brazil, as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Elena […]
Pope Francis
Pope Francis held his regular spring meeting with the officers of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops April 18 in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.
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