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By Joe Bukuras
An arrest has been made in connection with the vandalism of St. Paulinus Catholic Church in Syracuse, Neb., that occurred on Palm Sunday weekend. Travis Ross, 32, was arrested April 6 by the Otoe County Sheriff’s Office after video evidence and witnesses led authorities to name him a suspect. Father Ryan Salisbury, St. Paulinus’ pastor, […]
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James Ryan Joseph and Sean-Michael Vincent Nypaver will be ordained to the transitional diaconate April 15 at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, taking them one step closer to ordination to the priesthood next year. Read their bios below. James Joseph was born Jan. 13, 1992, in Allentown, Pa., to Jim and Debbie Joseph. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The women disciples, who were the first to meet the risen Jesus, offer a lesson to all Christians: “We encounter Jesus by giving witness to him,” Pope Francis said. The entire city of Jerusalem had seen Jesus crucified on the cross, yet the women who find his tomb empty, run to share […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.” “In Jesus the decisive passage of humanity has been made: the […]
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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was the celebrant and homilist for the Easter Vigil Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington April 8. The liturgy included the ceremonial blessing of the new fire, lighting of the paschal candle, and a series of Scripture readings and responsorial Psalms by candlelight, alternating between English and […]
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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge led a Celebration of the Passion of the Lord April 7 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. In his homily, Bishop Burbidge invoked the theme of the second year of preparation for the Diocesan Golden Jubilee: “Rejoice.” “We rejoice because, as Pope Francis says: ‘The crucifix does not […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Easter is the time “to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope and to look with confidence to the future, for Christ is risen and has changed the direction of history,” Pope Francis said as he celebrated the Easter Vigil Mass. “The power of Easter […]
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By Zoey Maraist
Catholics journey to different altars of repose during the Seven Churches Pilgrimage.
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By Anna Harvey
The choir burst into singing the “Gloria” at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. The Mass for Holy Thursday marks the start of Holy Triduum and commemorates the institution of the priesthood and Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper. As part of the […]
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