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By Mary Durran
The third bishop of Haiti’s Jérémie Diocese must be the only Catholic bishop in the world whose cathedral roof has collapsed twice in earthquakes and was ripped off once by a Category 4 hurricane. “We are alive,” Bishop Joseph Gontrand Decoste told the Jérémie radio station JCOM in an April 14 video interview. “Depi tet […]
Columns
By Paul Weiss
There is a giant step the people of God can take next weekend to benefit the Earth’s climate. It’s simple, easy, everyone is capable of doing it and, best of all, it involves doing less not more. I’m not a climate scientist but I know this: if 70 million U.S. Catholics embraced Pope Francis’ encyclical, […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Tepid third installment in the fantasy franchise that began in 2016 with an adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter”-related novel “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” Returning director David Yates takes viewers on a trot around the globe of the early 1930s and marshals imposing special effects. Yet, as scripted by Rowling and Steve […]
Local
The Mother of Light Center in Alexandria took Good Friday prayers to area neighborhoods with a “street retreat” April 15. This is the second year the center has sponsored the retreat, with preaching on Jesus’ Good Friday message and prayers in both English and Spanish. Father Paul A. Berghout and Deacon Gerard-Marie Anthony, two diocesan […]
Local
Across the Arlington diocese, more than 160 adults were welcomed into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil Masses April 16. The hourslong vigil Mass began with the blessing and lighting of the Paschal candle symbolizing the light of Christ. During Mass, the more than 160 initiates received the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and first Communion. […]
Art
By Maisy Sullivan
WASHINGTON — The Shroud of Turin is “such a powerful image of God’s love because Jesus willingly underwent this for our salvation,” said Brian Hyland, curator of the Museum of the Bible’s current exhibit on the 14-foot-by-4-foot linen cloth many people believe is Jesus’ burial shroud. The shroud has a full-length photonegative image of a […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — The joy of Christ’s resurrection is needed now more than ever in a time when war in Ukraine and other parts of the world makes the hope for peace seem like an illusion, Pope Francis said before giving his Easter blessing. Like the disciples who were at first doubtful of Jesus rising […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — The joy of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead gives joy and strength to those who are called to bring peace, reconciliation and justice to the suffering and the downtrodden, Pope Francis said. “Let us make Jesus, the Living One, rise again from all those tombs in which we have sealed him,” the […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — More than 10,000 people gathered outside Rome’s Colosseum prayed with Pope Francis for peace in the world, while a Ukrainian and a Russian woman held a cross together during the nighttime Way of the Cross April 15. The pope had asked families to write the series of prayers and reflections for the […]
Gospel Commentary for April 17