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By Anna Donofrio
At St. Rita School in Alexandria, a sixth grader is saying “no” to screen time in favor of service opportunities.
Wilson Gonzalez Soto, 11, said that for him, serving others in his Alexandria community is more than just about screen-free distraction — it’s biblical.
Local
By Anna Donofrio
E. Christian Brugger — who has three master’s degrees and a PhD in moral theology — regularly writes a column for the National Catholic Register on “Difficult Moral Questions,” from his Front Royal home. A parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal, he and his wife, Melissa, have five children and have moved 19 times across the globe. He specializes in bioethics, sexual ethics and issues of moral cooperation.
Local
By Kevin Schweers
That the scourge of racism remains more than 60 years after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should not prompt despair, but rather motivation for Catholics to pray and work to uphold the dignity of all persons as children of God, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge said during a Mass honoring the civil […]
Books
Global
By Julieta Villar
In a world marked by aggression and distraction online, Argentine priest Father Gregorio Nadal’s new book "How to Be Christians on Social Media" invites readers to reflect on what digital life is doing to their hearts.
Pope Leo XIV
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said that God is revealed through Jesus' humanity, not solely through a "channel of transmission of intellectual truths." It is through Jesus' life, death and Resurrection that one can come to know God.
Bishop Burbidge
Local
By Jim Hale
Bishop Burbidge pointed to an alarming increase in mental illness among young people due to increasing isolation and lack of connection, resulting in a “sense of drifting and meaninglessness.”
Pope Leo XIV
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — People of faith and goodwill need to take time to acknowledge the needs and suffering of those around them and be moved by love and compassion to offer others concrete help, Pope Leo XIV said.
Columns
By Kevin Schweers
“Why a Catholic paper?” Those words appeared on the pages of the first issue of the Catholic Herald in 1976 in a column by Charles W. Carruth, its original editor, may he rest in peace. Carruth’s question endures today for different reasons. Times change, and then they don’t. In 1976, gasoline was $0.59 a gallon, […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Barry C. Knestout
For the second straight year, the General Assembly has passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would add an extreme and deadly “fundamental right” to abortion to Virginia’s constitution.
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