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By Ann M. Augherton
From the archives Every year around St. Patrick’s Day I bake some Irish soda bread. I don’t have an old family recipe from my Irish grandmothers, so I usually pull a cookbook off the shelf and settle on a tried recipe with what I thought were the basic ingredients — flour, butter, baking soda, salt, […]
Global
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME — The call to prayer is an “active mission,” one that does not take a believer from the world but prompts the believer to bring to God the pain and concerns of the world — including the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said. “To pray is to bring the beating heart of current affairs […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
KOLKATA, India — The Missionaries of Charity have elected Sister Joseph Michael, former secretary to St. Teresa of Kolkata, as superior general of order.
Art
Arts
By Linda Petersen
SPRINGVILLE, Utah — A love of drawing and an affinity for the art of doodling has led Gabby Gauchay to an unexpected vocation as well as recognition in The Catholic Woman, the quarterly magazine of the National Council of Catholic Women. Gauchay, 28, began doodling images of the saints after she and her husband, Jon, […]
National
By Julie Asher
WASHINGTON — The chairmen of several U.S. bishops’ committees and the head of March for Life March 11 praised the U.S. senators who voted to pass the government’s omnibus bill with the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life provisions included in it. The bishops also commended lawmakers for including “critical humanitarian assistance for the victims of […]
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Schools
By Natalie Askin
While math, science and other core subjects teach students the concepts they need to know in college and their careers, other classes prepare students who plan to strive for entirely new paths. At St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, students are offered an entrepreneurship class that teaches how to start and run businesses […]
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By Mark Holan
I drove to St. Patrick Church in Fredericksburg for Mass soon after Bishop Michael F. Burbidge dedicated the new building last June. It became the latest of similar pilgrimages I’ve made over the years to more than two dozen churches and other spots associated with Ireland’s patron saint.
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By Zoey Maraist
Hundreds of innocents have died in the war.
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By Ashleigh Kassock
Emilio Rodolfo Biosca sat in the office of the American embassy in Mexico waiting for his fate to be decided. It was 1964 and the Cuban native had made the more than 1,300-mile journey to Mexico with two false passports and his 2-year-old daughter with the hope that they could gain asylum in America. “The […]
