Noted broadcast journalist and author Cokie Roberts was remembered as a Washington icon, a national treasure and a woman devoted to her family and her faith as luminaries from the worlds of media and politics joined friends and admirers at her funeral Mass Sept. 21.
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Youth at Mass for Life thanked for offering sign of hope for the future
The estimated crowd of 18,000 came from the Washington area and from across the country and were joined by young adults from Sydney on their way to World Youth Day in Panama.
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Washington priests talk about keeping faith in wake of abuse scandals
Father William Byrne, the pastor of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Potomac, said he has been telling his parishioners “that I walk with them in sadness, in pain and in anger.”
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Cardinal Wuerl addresses church’s ‘pain, confusion and disillusionment’
Addressing the clergy abuse crisis in the church will require “wider lay engagement, more realized accountability and evident transparency,” said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the end of a Sept. 2 Mass in Washington.
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Faith can help cleanse societal waters of racism, says Cardinal Wuerl
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said the concept of race is not a biological reality, but a social construct.
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Wuerl: Politically correct ‘choice’ rhetoric hides ugly truth of abortion
“The word of God says to us, ‘Don’t conform yourself to this age.'”