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Three religious sisters with ties to the Arlington diocese recently marked jubilees. Sister Bernadette McManigal, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, marks her Diamond Jubilee this year, having spent 70 years in the religious life. She was a teacher and administrator around the country and served as diocesan school superintendent for the […]
National
By Zelda Caldwell and Jonathan Liedl
Marcus Freeman, the new head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, has reportedly converted to the Catholic faith, a process he began since his arrival in South Bend, Indiana. “Welcome to our newest Catholic, Marcus Freeman,” read an announcement in the Sept. 11 bulletin published by St. Pius X Catholic Church in Granger, […]
Parishes
By Zoey Maraist
The parish celebrates a beautified worship space at a Mass with Bishop Burbidge.
Schools
Middle-school students at St. William of York School in Stafford were greeted Aug. 24 with a renovated campus wing with enhanced lighting, upgraded and interactive classroom display panels, and a new science lab complete with lab rats, birds and a family of turtles. At a ribbon cutting for the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Wing, Father […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
YANGON, Myanmar — Soldiers in Myanmar used a Catholic church as a kitchen and laid mines around the building, church sources told ucanews.com. A video posted by local defense forces showed dirty floors and pews covered with dust along with cooking pots and military uniforms inside Mother of God Church in Mobye, in Shan state. […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan — The painful memories of the persecution of Christians in Kazakhstan serve as a reminder that peace “must be achieved anew each day,” Pope Francis said. Celebrating Mass on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross Sept. 14 at the Expo grounds in Nur-Sultan, the pope said that, much like the people […]
Global
By Doreen Abi Raad
BEIRUT — In London, prayers now rise up to God from the shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, and also from Lebanon, where the shrine’s icon originated. The shrine is in the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory in central London, but the nun who wrote the icon is from […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Religious persecution of Catholics has ramped up in the Central American country.
Art
By Nora Hamerman
For an abundance of devotional art, the Walters Art Museum just up the road and near the Basilica of the Assumption in downtown Baltimore is the destination to seek out — and perhaps the best anywhere in the United States. On a recent visit, more than 60 different images of the Blessed Virgin Mary were […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Sometimes gold flakes surface along the periphery. The first or last picture in a photo shoot is the winner. The opening or final page of a book delivers the line that you hold to your heart. Or the wind-down of an interview — right after the formal conversation has wrapped up — produces a comment […]
