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Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, May Our Lord’s presence and triumph fill your hearts with peace and joy this sacred Season of Easter and always! When the risen Christ appears to the disciples, his first words to them are, “Peace be with you.” In these difficult and challenging times for our world, today we […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Mass graves and the deceased still lying along the roadside became a kind of “Way of the Cross” where Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, and Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, stopped and prayed. Pope Francis had sent the cardinal to Ukraine to spend Triduum and Easter with the people […]
National
By Catholic News Service
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis April 14 signed into law a measure that limits most abortions in Florida to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. The state’s Catholic bishops praised DeSantis for his “commitment to defend unborn children and their mothers” and for his leadership in encouraging the legislature to take up the bill […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In the life of every Christian, but especially of priests, God’s love and forgiveness are the greatest rewards, and any attempt to seek one’s own glory plays into the hands of the devil, Pope Francis said. With some 1,800 priests concelebrating and renewing the promises made at their ordinations, Pope Francis celebrated […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME — The Catholic Church in Europe and other places will, as retired Pope Benedict XVI had said, be smaller and less influential, but the church’s mission and joy is not to increase numbers but to share the Gospel, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Malta. “What is the vocation of the church? It is not […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Performing in a live reenactment of the Stations of the Cross made Christ’s crucifixion all the more real, said Gloria Gallagher. “It was a lot more intense than it is when you just see it in the pictures,” she said. “It feels like it’s coming alive. It helped me understand it more.” Gallagher was one […]
National
By Priscila González de Doran
HYDES, Md. — Days after a tabernacle containing the Eucharist was stolen from a parish near Baltimore, parishioners received some good news when the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur donated one of their tabernacles to the grieving faith community. The replacement tabernacle arrived at St. John the Evangelist Church in Hydes a few hours […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Pope Francis blessed a special Easter basket during a private audience with Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly and his family at the Vatican April 11. The Easter basket was representative of the 10,000 Easter care packages assembled by Knights of Columbus in Poland in recent days, which were being distributed to displaced […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
At the end of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, April 14, parishes around the Arlington diocese removed the Eucharist from the tabernacle and placed it on an altar of repose. Many worshipped there until midnight, symbolically spending the evening waiting with Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. Others traveled to the […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff
With pandemic restrictions being lifted nationwide stations of the cross came back to several parishes in the diocese. St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls Church had live stations with 40 different actors, while the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington did stations around the church.
