VATICAN CITY — Arlene and I have been blessed to have had many “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences. But aside from marriage, baptism and confirmation, birth of children and grandchildren, being in St. Peter’s Square to see white smoke, witness the revealing of a new Pope and receiving a ...
MUSIC * Brighterside Quartet, Jay Humphreys Trio VIENNA — An evening of Southern gospel music with Brighterside Quartet and the Jay Humphreys Trio will be presented at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Cornerstone Gospel Church, 3100 17th Ave., Vienna. A $15 donation will be collected at the ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the "stable union between a man and a woman," and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God's creatures, articulating clear Catholic teaching on marriage and abortion at the start of his pontificate. Leo, ...
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Kat Renfroe was at Mass when she saw a volunteer opportunity in the bulletin. Her Catholic parish was looking for tutors for Afghan youth, newly arrived in the United States. There was a personal connection for Renfroe. Her husband, now retired from the Marine ...
NEW YORK (AP) — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV's homeland, raising the question of whether he might be able to ease some of the deep divisions within its ranks. From ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in a polarized Catholic Church. "I, too, address the world's ...
