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What’s distinctive about your parish? What is your parish’s charism? St. Leo the Great is commonly referred to as “the great” parish by parishioners and clergy alike because of many attributes, including the quality of its liturgy and social ministry services. St. Leo brings Christ’s presence to Fairfax. When visitors enter the light-filled vestibule, they […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Second Vatican Council was the universal Catholic Church’s response to God’s love and to Jesus’ command to feed his sheep, Pope Francis said, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the council’s opening. The council reminded the church of what is “essential,” the pope said: “a church madly in love with its Lord […]
National
WASHINGTON — An Oct. 5 ruling by a federal appeals court — finding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful — sends another signal that permanent legislation is needed to protect young immigrants from deportation and put them on a path to U.S. citizenship, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. A […]
Pope Francis
By Courtney Mares
VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church gained two new saints on Sunday as Pope Francis canonized St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. The two saints were both born in Italy in the 19th century and ministered to others amid the massive emigration of hundreds of thousands of Italians each year at the turn […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — Colorado baker Jack Phillips, whose refusal to make a same-sex wedding cake on religious grounds went to the Supreme Court, is currently fighting a ruling that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law for refusing to bake a cake to celebrate a gender transition. In arguments before Colorado’s appeals court Oct. 5, Phillips’ attorneys […]
National
By Connie Connolly
WARWICK, Md. — About 30 Jesuit priests from Georgetown University in Washington spent a day exploring the roots of Catholicism in colonial Maryland. The first stop on the field trip was St. Francis Xavier Shrine in Cecil County’s rolling countryside. That setting, and others on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, allowed the educators and their colleagues in […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Continuing to talk about the “grave danger” humanity is facing because of the war in Ukraine and Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons, Pope Francis urged a group of young people from Belgium to be peacemakers. “As you well know, we are going through difficult times for humanity, which is in great […]
Bishop Burbidge
Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointment: Parochial Vicar Reverend Joseph D. Bergida — Released from pastoral ministry to discern a vocation to religious life, effective October 11, 2022.
National
By Christopher Gunty
BALTIMORE — Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore joined a small group of leaders from the Knights of Columbus on a four-day trip to Poland and Ukraine to help distribute aid from the fraternal organization to orphanages and other service centers assisting refugees from the war in Ukraine. Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly established the Ukraine […]
Global
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has selected a French Jesuit theologian and a Jewish law professor as winners of the Ratzinger Prize. The winners for 2022, announced by the Vatican Oct. 7, are: — Jesuit Father Michel Fédou, professor of dogmatic theology and patristics at the Centre Sèvres of Paris and dean of the faculty […]
