By Christina Capecchi
It’s a blustery Monday morning in September, and the wind is whipping the first patches of red in the maple outside Mary’s window.
10/2/26
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By Elizabeth Foss
I’ve promised myself that I’m going to go out into the garden with my camera and record everything — all the bare spots, the overgrown spots, the weeds gone absolutely wild — everything.
10/2/26
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By Lucia A. Silecchia
As summertime flows into fall, and pumpkin spice everything fills the senses — whether we wish it or not — there can be wistful nostalgia for summer.
10/2/26
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By MARGARET YOUNGBLOOD
Behind an event that hosts 50,000 people there is inevitably a throng of unsung heroes who make it happen. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s beatification Sept. 24 was no exception and it was my great privilege to participate as a volunteer.
10/2/26
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By Rebecca Weaver
As Virginia considers the proposed “Right to Reproductive Freedom” amendment on this November’s ballot, an important question must be asked:
10/1/26
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By Fr. Steven Oetjen
The parable we hear today strikes many as unjust.
Some people worked all day under the hot sun, and they only got paid the same amount as everyone else, even those who only worked for one hour.
9/19/26
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By Jeff Caruso
As Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Richmond Bishop Barry C. Knestout observed in their recent pre-election letter to Virginia Catholics, “In Virginia, every year is an election year. However, the contents on the ballot this fall are anything but ordinary.”
9/17/26
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By Elizabeth Foss
I have a radar for it. I can spot her from a distance: a girl who knows that her father delights in her.
She is more assured than other girls, more likely to believe that she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to.
9/17/26
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
Remember that time when St. John Paul II said that men shouldn’t be attracted to their wives?
It was the general audience of Oct. 8, 1980, amid his “Theology of the Body” talks. And that wasn’t actually what he said. But it’s definitely what he was reported to have said.
9/17/26
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