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Books
By Anna Harvey
The clergy and parishioners of St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax have taken to writing to reignite the laity’s love of the Mass. Last April, the parish published a booklet titled, “Why I Go to Mass,” a collection of reflections from individual parishioners. Not long after, Deacon Nick La Duca published his own book […]
Columns
By Laura Kelly Fanucci
As a mother of five boys, I have spent countless nights at baseball fields, but never have I glimpsed God in the dugout until tonight. Can I confess that I was bored by my own son’s game — bored only because his team was winning and he’d finished pitching, so my attention wandered for a […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
America’s culture war has turned violent. The violence has always been there of course, just below the surface, but lately it has erupted into full, frightening view. I’m not speaking just now of mass killings like the massacres in Uvalde and Buffalo. Those atrocities are not culture war blips but monstrous acts of premeditated evil […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Here we are, in the thick of summer, this deep and gentle place. The world is still broken, but we are given a season of delight. Sweet corn and watermelon, birdsong and bare feet, and the nostalgic sensation of endless summer stretching out before us like a million tufts of cloud roaming the big blue […]
Parishes
By Catholic Herald Staff
What’s distinctive about your parish? Founded in 1795 as the first parish in the commonwealth of Virginia, St. Mary in Alexandria played a crucial role in the growth of Catholicism in Virginia throughout the 1800s. Many mission churches the parish established are now independent parishes in the Arlington diocese. Due to its historic significance, art […]
National
By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK — A Florida high school senior took first place in the Christophers’ annual poster contest for high school students and a math major at Southern New Hampshire University who is just 16 years old won the top honor in the organization’s annual video contest for college students. The Christophers is a New York-based […]
National
By Kurt Jensen
WASHINGTON — Can an emphasis on values and what’s called a traditional “liberal” — meaning liberal arts — Catholic education rebuild the long-dwindling parochial education system? Elisabeth Sullivan, executive director of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, believes that it can, and that the effort begins with acknowledging that America’s political and social culture is […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Addressing Catholic educators at an annual national conference, Bishop Thomas A. Daly of Spokane, Washington, urged them to make sure their work was always rooted in the importance of the Eucharist. The bishop, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education, said schoolteachers should help their students more deeply […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops’ annual report on compliance with the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” shows that 2,930 victim survivors came forward with 3,103 allegations during the audit year of July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The number of allegations is 1,149 less than that reported in 2020, according […]
Columns
By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
Since 1974, thousands of people have attended the March for Life in Washington every year in January. Founded by Nellie Gray, the March began as a small demonstration in 1974, one year after the Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade decision. It soon became the world’s largest pro-life event, bearing witness to the […]
