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Nearly 200 couples celebrating 25 and 50 years of marriage attended, representing a total of 7,575 years of marriage.
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — As soon as the lights dimmed for the start of the show in the tiny Vatican movie theater, the crack of beer cans being opened joined the quieter crunch of popcorn. After all, when there is a private showing of “The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” starring Zac Efron and a green duffel […]
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Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis will travel to Asti Nov. 19 for a private family celebration of his cousin’s 90th birthday, and he will celebrate a public Mass the next morning in the Asti cathedral, the Vatican said. The Mass Nov. 20 will be an encounter with “the diocesan community that his relatives left to immigrate […]
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By Zoey Maraist
Learn about the foundation of the seven sacraments in sacred Scripture.
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By Zoey Maraist
A Fairfax Catholic reviews Fairfax County Public Schools’ sex education lessons.
Global
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Reviewing one’s life is an essential step in discerning God’s call because it helps one see places where God was at work, even in small things, and also helps one recognize “toxic” thoughts of self-doubt, Pope Francis said. A daily review of one’s actions and feelings is not mainly about acknowledging one’s […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Completing a project to repatriate human remains held in the Vatican Museums’ ethnological collection, the Vatican and the government of Peru signed an agreement Oct. 17 to return to Peru three mummies sent to the Vatican in 1925. Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, and […]
National
By Peter Finney Jr.
NEW ORLEANS — The Sisters of the Holy Family used a recent visit by Cardinal Peter Turkson to update him on the status of the sainthood cause for Mother Henriette Delille, the free woman of color who founded the congregation in New Orleans in 1842. Mother Delille was declared “venerable” by Pope Benedict XVI in […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Saying he did not want to rush the process of discerning how the Holy Spirit is calling the church to grow in “synodality,” Pope Francis announced that the next assembly of the Synod of Bishops would take place in two sessions. The synod assembly, with mostly bishops as voting members, will meet […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Prayer is medicine for one’s faith and it reinvigorates the soul, Pope Francis said. “We need the daily water of prayer, we need time dedicated to God, so that he can enter into our time, into our lives,” the pope said Oct. 16 during his Sunday Angelus address. “We need consistent moments […]
