Marking the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and the start of the new year, Pope Francis renewed his appeal for a "firm ...

Opening the Holy Door of the oldest Marian shrine in the Western world, Cardinal Rolando Makrickas prayed that the world ...

Christmas celebrates the reason for our hope, as Sacred Scripture proclaims: "For today in the city of David a savior has ...

A short, simple statement — “Marley was dead”— ranks high in any list of most famous first line in all literature. Marley, we soon learn, is the deceased former partner Ebenezer Scrooge, the memorable ...

It happens all year — the requests for donations for all manner of charitable causes. Pleas come in the mail from children’s hospitals, medical researchers, religious communities and educational ...

Local Catholic high school students recently spent the day at the diocese’s chancery offices and the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, dedicated to learning about the many cultures ...

When I was still in the stage of life where the Lord would ask me if I were open to a baby, it was very, very easy to meditate upon the Annunciation. It was so simple to imagine myself in a small home ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called on Catholics to focus their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimages on Jesus Christ, who is both the path and destination for Christian hope. At his general audience Dec. 18, the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called on Catholics to focus their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimages on Jesus Christ, who is both the path and destination for Christian hope. At his general audience Dec. 18, the ...

Immaculate Conception in Fredericksburg, died Dec. 26. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Jan. 2 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ridge by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge. Father James C.