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More than 100 of the top student vocalists from 13 elementary schools came together March 7 to rehearse, rehearse, rehearse — and finally perform a concert at the diocesan Honors Choir Festival at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington.
In cooperation with Italian emergency measures, the Vatican has closed St. Peter's Square and Basilica to tourists starting March 10 through April 3.
Eighth-grade Catholic school students attend the annual “Go Forth: Called and Chosen” event, co-sponsored by the diocesan Office of Vocations and the Office of Catholic Schools.
The suspension of public Masses in Italy is a painful yet necessary measure to protect people's health, the country's bishops said.
Due to coronavirus threats in the U.S., the U.S. apostolic nuncio and the permanent observer of the Holy See to the Organization of American States have canceled a celebration scheduled for March 13 to mark the seventh anniversary of the election of Pope Francis
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has undertaken a two-year restoration of one of the most important relics of St. Francis of Assisi, the missal that is believed to have inspired his unique commitment to the imitation of Christ.
Thanks, Mike, for all the great years doing what we both have loved for so long, telling the story of the diocese. You must know how very glad I am that we’ve had this time together.
The Vatican health clinic was closed temporarily after a person tested positive for the coronavirus, the Vatican announced.
Cast aside
The poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of those literary classics you’ve heard quoted time and again without even knowing it. Its most famous line, “Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” images a sailor dying of thirst, surrounded only by saltwater. Saltwater, of course, cannot quench thirst. Drinking enough of it causes death by dehydration. Some refugees, adrift on an open sea and dying of thirst, have actually given into the maddening temptation, and drank seawater to their own death. Sometimes that which looks like sweet relief is, in cold reality, lethal.