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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.
Local
By Jim Hale
Dominic Best listened patiently as state Sen. Barbara Favola explained her support of the proposed amendment to Virginia’s constitution to promote and facilitate more abortions.
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
As the church in America marks “A Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children” Jan. 22, it is fitting to consider the importance of our commitment to the protection of every human life from conception to natural death.
National
Members of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary’s eastern region gathered Jan. 11 at Marymount Convent in Tarrytown, N.Y., to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sister Irene Cody, RSHM.
The Lamb of God