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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
ROME — Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after a nine-day hospital stay and intends to go ahead with his planned trips abroad in August and September, according to his chief surgeon. “The pope is fine. He’s better than before,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the chief surgeon who operated on the pope June 7 […]
National
The Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 16. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty, joined by Los Angeles Archbishop […]
Local
Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? What is your parish’s charism? While true of all parishes, we place special emphasis on helping people live both in vertical union with God and horizontal union with each other. We have beautiful liturgy and adoration. The spiritual life is well-developed and strong, only strengthened by having the monastery of […]
Schools
The George Mason University Catholic Campus Ministry is hosting Thursday Night Gatherings every Thursday in June and July for college students and graduating high school seniors in the area at St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel, 4515 Roberts Rd., Fairfax, at 7 p.m. The event will include free food, fun and fellowship. Find out more For more […]
Parishes
The parish community at St. Ann Church in Arlington gathered for a special Mass on the feast of the Holy Trinity June 4 to send off one of their own. Brother Mark Joyce, a parishioner, will enter the novitiate for the Missionhurst-CICM in the Philippines this month. Brother Joyce entered the order nearly two years […]
Columns
By Jeff Caruso
A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision restored the power to protect life from the moment of conception to the people and their elected representatives. As a result, many states have implemented laws that are saving thousands of preborn children. More than half of the states, however, have few limits on abortion. Virginia […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
Some days you wonder how to take the next step, how to keep moving forward with purpose and determination (and maybe even joy?) when you’re walking a road that you didn’t choose and you don’t particularly like. You wonder how you will find the grit and determination and strength to just live through another unforeseen […]
Schools
Daisy Almaraz, a seventh grader at Sacred Heart Academy in Winchester, was recognized as a grand national champion in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. She was presented the award June 13. Last year, Almaraz won the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Contest State Championship as a sixth grader. “I enjoy writing in cursive because I feel it is […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Much attention has been paid to a recent, startling discovery: the well-preserved body of Benedictine Sister Mary Wilhelmina of the Most Holy Rosary, (1924-2019), the foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. Thousands have already flocked to the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Mo., to see Sister Mary Wilhelmina’s body […]
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