The Arlington Catholic Herald
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Barry C. Knestout
We are pleased that Governor Youngkin has vetoed SB 237/HB 609 and SB 238/HB 819. These bills threatened to compel organizations to provide and pay for contraceptives and even some abortion-inducing drugs and devices against their deeply and sincerely held beliefs. In SB 237/HB 609, the asserted “right” to contraception was alarmingly broad: It would …
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5/18/24
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By Marguerita Kallassy
A Lebanese Catholic man has created a giant rosary that floats upon the Mediterranean waves. Joe Abdel Sater, a swimming instructor in the seaside town of Bouar, built the world’s largest rosary on the ocean May 11 — with the help of family and friends — on the feast of Our Lady of the Seas. …
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5/17/24
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By Lucia A. Silecchia
“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.” So goes a line from the prelude to “Getting to Know You,” one of the songs that punctuates the classic musical “The King and I.” After many years as a teacher, I can vouch for the truth of this observation. I am particularly reminded …
5/17/24
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By Jim Hale
John Cannon doesn’t do things half-hearted. After earning an MBA from Harvard University and a master’s in politics and international relations from Oxford University, he became an investment banker at 26 and started his own consulting firm two years later. “I was a high achiever, chasing a lot of success in my life and was …
5/17/24
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By Jim Hale
It was 1976, and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was 19 years old when he arrived on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. Forty-eight years later, Bishop Burbidge returned May 15 to the place where he spent eight years in priestly formation, to receive an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters, presented by …
5/16/24
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We are pleased that Governor Youngkin has vetoed SB 237/HB 609 and SB 238/HB 819. These bills threatened to compel organizations to provide and pay for contraceptives and even some abortion-inducing drugs and devices against their deeply and sincerely held beliefs. In SB 237/HB 609, the asserted “right” to contraception was alarmingly broad: It would …
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5/18/24
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John Cannon doesn’t do things half-hearted. After earning an MBA from Harvard University and a master’s in politics and international relations from Oxford University, he became an investment banker at 26 and started his own consulting firm two years later. “I was a high achiever, chasing a lot of success in my life and was …
5/17/24
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It was 1976, and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was 19 years old when he arrived on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. Forty-eight years later, Bishop Burbidge returned May 15 to the place where he spent eight years in priestly formation, to receive an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters, presented by …
5/16/24
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A Lebanese Catholic man has created a giant rosary that floats upon the Mediterranean waves. Joe Abdel Sater, a swimming instructor in the seaside town of Bouar, built the world’s largest rosary on the ocean May 11 — with the help of family and friends — on the feast of Our Lady of the Seas. …
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5/17/24
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VATICAN CITY — True change comes to people’s lives and communities when both spiritual and material needs receive care, said the president of a Catholic relief and development organization based in Boca Raton, Fla. “When you see communities that integrate holistically, integral human development, the spiritual, the social and the material, you see people that …
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5/16/24
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ROME — Pope Francis, who was ordained to the priesthood 54 years ago, encouraged senior priests in the Diocese of Rome to be “witnesses of memory,” sharing their faith and experiences with younger clergy and not being afraid to argue with them from time to time. The pope met May 14 with some 70 priests …
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5/16/24
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VATICAN CITY — While it is easy for people to love what is good and beautiful or to be generous and heroic for an ideal, Pope Francis said Christian love embraces what is not lovable, it offers forgiveness and blesses one’s enemies. This “greater love,” which comes from God, “drives us where humanly we would …
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5/16/24
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This year’s spring musical, “White Christmas,” at Seton School was a success. There were five performances before more than 430 seats, and every show was sold out, with a waiting list for the last two nights. Mary Kate Vander Woude, a former Seton student (’07), volunteered to direct the musical for her first time. She …
5/2/24
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5/2/24
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For one brief moment at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the hopes of the world seemed concentrated on a single man standing alone outside the massive Duomo di Milano in Italy. Andrea Bocelli, one of the most acclaimed tenors of his time, kept his arms at his sides and remained motionless as his powerful …
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4/24/24
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