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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.
Movies
By Francesca Pollio Fenton
St. Teresa of Calcutta once said: “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” Her words appear at the end of the new movie “Unsung Hero,” which tells the true story of the Smallbone family, widely recognized in the music industry for brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone of the Grammy-award-winning […]
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A graduate school symposium features Cardinal Raymond Burke and other theologians.
Global
By Justin McLellan
ROME — The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more “auto-referential” and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis’ representative to the United States said. Speaking with Catholic News Service before formally taking possession of his titular church in Rome April 21, Cardinal Christophe […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — When Jesus called himself the “good shepherd,” he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important to him and “that he thinks of each of us as the love of his life,” Pope Francis said. “Consider this: for Christ, I am important, he thinks of […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Longing for the past will not save contemplative religious orders from closing their monasteries or experiencing shifts in vocations, Pope Francis said. Discerning how to adapt the structures of a centuries-old religious order to the modern age “means not relying solely on human strategies, defensive strategies, when it comes to reflecting on […]
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Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments:
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By Anna Harvey
Among rolling hills, lush green trees and flowers sits the new Pavilion Estates at Fairfax Memorial Park Cemetery in Fairfax. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed the cemetery addition April 16. Bishop Burbidge opened the ceremony by thanking the Fairfax Memorial Park staff and addressing those gathered. “It is a great honor, friends, to join you […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Every important journey should be preceded by adequate preparation, and the run-up to the Holy Year 2025 is no exception. Pope Francis asked Catholics to get ready for the jubilee journey with a Year of Prayer and now, a few months after the year was officially announced, a kind of prayer prep-school […]
The Good Shepherd