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In Greece, Pope expresses concern for democracy's decline in Europe

ATHENS, Greece (CNS) -- From Aristotle to St. Gregory Nazianzus, and from the Acropolis to the olive tree, Pope Francis drew...

Dec 4, 2021

Study finds young adult Catholics actively engage in faith – just not in parish

Dec 3, 2021

Pro-lifers hopeful about outcome of Dobbs case, urge prayers for court

Dec 2, 2021

Father Kevin Kennedy drawing on parish and business experience as senior leadership director for Leadership Roundtable

Father Kevin Kennedy, a veteran priest of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and a former chief financial officer and...

Dec 2, 2021

In interview, Cardinal Gregory reflects on his first year as a cardinal

On Nov. 28, 2020 when Pope Francis elevated 13 new cardinals from around the world – including Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the...

Nov 28, 2021

Black Catholic Voices interview with Ogechi Akalegbere, 2021 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award recipient

(Ogechi Akalegbere, the Christian service coordinator at Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac, Maryland, received the...

December Junior Saints seeking students’ drawings, writings on Christmas

In December we celebrate Christmas, when we prayerfully remember the birth of Jesus. For the December Junior Saints, draw a...

Nov 15, 2021

Service and advocacy help Ogechi Akalegbere live out love, and her faith, in action

Pope advances sainthood causes, including Dutch priest murdered at Dachau

Congress urged to pass Conscience Protection Act for health care workers

Special Series

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Back to school for 2021-22 school year

With COVID-19 safety protocols again in place, Catholic schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington open their...

2021-2022 Open Houses at Catholic high schools

Sep 24, 2021

Today Show’s Willard Scott and Al Roker have extolled Catholic education

Sep 23, 2021

Voices

Advent activities of charity help us prepare for Christ’s return

We all find ourselves greatly influenced by what we may read or see in the media. That is why businesses spend so much time and...

Dec 4, 2021

Not too old for Father Christmas

It never fails: This year, just as in every other year for the last two-plus decades, as I was having a rumble through my attic...

Dec 3, 2021

Sunday Scripture readings for Dec. 5

Readings for the Second Sunday of Advent Baruch 5:1-9 Psalm 126:1-6 Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11 Luke 3:1-6 If I were asked to...

Question corner

Q. My sister claims that receiving Holy Communion in the hand is disrespecting the Eucharist. I told her that it must be OK...

Galleries

Photo gallery: Poor Robert’s turkey distribution and Catholic Charities Thanksgiving dinner

On Nov. 23, 2021, two days before Thanksgiving, teams of about 60 volunteers gathered at the parking lot of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the annual turkey...

Photo gallery: Cardinal Gregory ordains Father Nicholas Morrison and seven new transitional deacons for the Archdiocese of Washington

Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory ordained Father Nicholas Morrison and seven new transitional deacons for the Archdiocese of Washington on June 19, 2021 in a centuries-old ordination rite at the...

St. Francis International School students honor Mary at May crowning

Students from St. Francis International School in Silver Spring, Maryland, who recently received their First Holy Communion attended a May 12, 2021 Mass at nearby St. Camillus Church and then...

Cardinal Gregory celebrates 60th anniversary of St. Philip the Apostle Catholic School

Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory celebrated a Mass on the Feast of St. Philip and St. James and in honor of the 60th anniversary of St. Philip the Apostle Catholic School in Camp Springs,...

Photo Gallery: A day of joy as family’s quintuplets baptized at St. Matthias Church

Patricia and Basil Eze's family experienced five-fold blessings on April 25, 2021, as their quintuplets were baptized at St. Matthias the Apostle Catholic Church in Lanham, Maryland. The babies --...

Photo gallery: Cardinal Wilton Gregory celebrates 2021 Easter Vigil

Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory celebrated a joyful Easter Vigil on April 3, 2021 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. During the vigil there, 16 people received the Sacraments of...

Photo gallery: A shared Lenten journey of faith

The 840 people across the Archdiocese of Washington who are preparing to become full members of the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil on April 3, 2021 marked an important step on their journeys...

Photo gallery: Journey of faith of Cardinal Wilton Gregory as archbishop of Washington

Since being named as the new archbishop of Washington by Pope Francis in April 2019, Cardinal Wilton Gregory has had an eventful 20 months, leading the Archdiocese of Washington through the...

Photo gallery: Joyful Mass at St. Luke's Church in Washington on day before Archbishop Gregory named a cardinal

Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory made his first visit to St. Luke Catholic Church in the nation's capital on Oct. 24, 2020, for a Mass celebrating the parish's 63rd anniversary. On the next...

Photo gallery: Archbishop Gregory celebrates parish Mass after being named as cardinal by Pope Francis

Four hours after he learned that Pope Francis had named him as a new cardinal, Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated a 250th anniversary Mass at Holy Angels Church in Avenue, Maryland on...

Local

After racist comments, Catholic University replaces stolen icon with copy

The president of The Catholic University of America said the institution’s law school has replaced an icon of Mary holding...

Catholics invited to respond generously to annual #iGiveCatholic giving day

Masking requirements are shifting in the District of Columbia and Montgomery County

Nov 18, 2021

St. Augustine Catholic School collects 1,800 food items for the less fortunate

Nov 17, 2021

US & World

Saint Luke Institute pivots its intensive mental health treatment center away from residential care

Adaptations forced by the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated plans by the Saint Luke Institute to shift away from its longstanding...

Vigilance needed to rustle ‘sleepy Christians’ from slumber, pope says

Former USCCB official and leading voice for Black Catholics dies at 75

Atlanta archbishop: Arbery verdict does not bring him back, but advances justice

Nov 24, 2021

Faith

Pope says discrimination against people with disabilities must end

The Catholic Church must be a home for all, especially for people with disabilities who continue to face discrimination in the...

Cardinal Gregory says Advent is a time to prepare for Jesus’s arrival at Christmas and for ‘His return trip’

Polish priest killed by Nazis takes step closer to sainthood

Nov 23, 2021

Jubilant celebration marks Black Catholic History Month and Feast of Christ the King

Nov 22, 2021

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