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By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church’s highest-ranking prelate in the Holy Land offered his “absolute availability” to be exchanged for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told reporters during an online meeting Oct. 16 that he is willing to do “anything” to “bring to freedom and bring […]
National
By Matt McDonald
A church in southwestern Virginia known for its architecture, art and prominent place atop a hill is the latest in the United States to be named a minor basilica. The former St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke is now the Basilica of St. Andrew. The Diocese of Richmond announced the designation Oct. 12, several days […]
Local
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated a Mass for Marriage Jubilarians at St. Agnes Church in Arlington Oct. 15. This year, the jubilarians represented 6,125 years of marriage, Bishop Burbidge said. “Your faithful witness to married love is such a gift to your family and indeed the entire church,” he said. “Married love is a sacrament […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has united with Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the bishops of the Holy Land in their call that Tuesday, October 17 be a worldwide day of fasting, prayer, and abstinence for peace. I invite all of the faithful of the Diocese […]
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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated a Mass for Persons with Disabilities Oct. 8 at Holy Spirit Church in Annandale, followed by a reception sponsored by the parish and Porto Charities, a nonprofit that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Bishop Burbidge also serves as chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Synod participants who have known war and conflict firsthand led the assembly of the Synod of Bishops Oct. 12 by praying for peace between Israel and Palestine, throughout the Middle East and across the globe. Iraqi Sister Caroline Saheed Jarjis, a member of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, read […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge led more than 1,300 faithful from the Arlington diocese on a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Md., on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Oct. 7. The pilgrimage occurred ahead of the […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The life of St. Josephine Bakhita, a former slave from Sudan who became a nun, demonstrates how love liberates people from oppression and frees them to forgive their oppressors and break cycles of hatred and violence, Pope Francis said. “Often a wounded person wounds in turn; the oppressed easily becomes an oppressor,” […]
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Schools
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Stephen J. Schultz, chaplain of St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, had a stroke the weekend of Oct. 1 and was admitted to intensive care in a coma. Over the next few days, he was unconscious and mostly unresponsive, intermittently using a ventilator to breathe. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge visited him to […]
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