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By Anna Harvey
Celebration and sorrow mingled at the Mass for Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington April 2. While they rejoiced during the Gospel of the Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem, Massgoers later witnessed Jesus’ anguish in the retelling of the Passion. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge recognized […]
Pope Francis
By Courtney Mares
Pope Francis was discharged from the hospital April 1 after a three-night stay in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. Before departing by car, the pope greeted the crowd gathered outside of the hospital. In an emotional moment, he stopped to embrace and pray with a sobbing mother whose 5-year-old daughter died in the hospital the night before. […]
National
By Joe Bukuras
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and archbishop for the Military Services, USA, offered prayers for the nine American soldiers who died in a tragic accident during a helicopter training exercise in Kentucky March 29. “The tragic helicopter crash in Kentucky is a grim reminder of the risks taken […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said. In his homily for Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square April 2, the pope reflected on the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
ROME — Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel. The child, who was just a few weeks old, was sleeping peacefully in a portable hospital bassinet as the pope and the mother […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
ROME — Pope Francis enjoyed a pizza “party” with staff on his second night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and was expected to be released from the hospital April 1, the Vatican press office said. Matteo Bruni, head of the press office, later confirmed the 86-year-old pope’s “presence” at the Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s […]
Global
By Ana Paula Morales
Bishop José Guadalupe Torres of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, expressed in a March 28 statement his deepest condolences for the 38 migrants who died “due to the fire in the temporary residence of the National Institute of Migration here in our city.” The coordinators of the bishops of Texas and Mexico — Eugenio Lira, the bishop […]
National
By Jonah McKeown
The results of a new study from the Pew Research Center show that in-person Mass attendance among Catholics has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, and only about 4 in 10 U.S. Catholics say they attend Mass in person as often as they did before the pandemic. A quarter of all Catholics say they now […]
Local
On the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord March 25, nearly 300 people gathered at St. Michael Church in Annandale for the annual Mass for the Order of Malta and Anointing of the Sick, sponsored by the order’s Northern Virginia Region. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was the celebrant and homilist. Individuals from many parts […]
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