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In my line of work, I go to a lot of restaurants, and the company often looks to me to choose something from the wine list. This is a mistake. I can't tell red from white with my eyes closed. But I look on this as a blessing, because I do like a glass of wine with dinner, and I can be satisfied with a $4 bottle.
“How are we going to do this?”That is what many students must have thought when schools closed. Through experience, however, home-schoolers have always known how to distance learn.
Months ago, it was normal for St. Francis House in Dumfries to get a call from a family in need of food, a month’s rent or money for utilities. Now the calls are tinged with the effects of the pandemic.
Laudato Si’ Week, a weeklong observance that will also mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home,” will be May 16-24.
During times of great stress and crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, people can experience an increase of fear and despair. In some cases, unfortunately, the person loses a sense of hope and believes that death is preferable to continuing to live through the present hardship and tragedy. This point was sadly brought home recently when Dr. Lorna Breen, a New York doctor who had been working to save people infected with COVID-19 as the medical director of the emergency department of New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, took her own life while staying with family in Charlottesville.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, on May 14, the Church will begin a nine-day global campaign to mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. In this beautiful work, Pope Francis builds upon the teaching legacy of his predecessors Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI to urge Catholics and people of good will to care for all of God’s creation.
Bishop Burbidge told the faithful that the diocese is working to find ways to return to normal sacramental life safely but surely.
Marymount University in Arlington established a new academic partnership with OpusCare, a Miami-based nonprofit, to offer a certificate seminar series on palliative care.
In just two months, nearly 1,300 bills passed, some drastically altering or even erasing decades of state policy.
When word came that Illinois residents were being asked to stay home and the Archdiocese of Chicago suspended public Masses in mid-March, Chicago-based iconographer Joseph Malham was at loose ends, like so many others. He decided to use the time to create, and the result is a 3-foot-by-4-foot icon of Christ the Healer, an image he completed in just about three weeks.
