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Taking the Catholic faith from the pew to the public square – a Virginia Catholic Conference blog with special guest posts.
On eve of papal visit, Bishop DiLorenzo discusses encyclical, tells crowd of 200: no conflict between Faith, science
In the midst of competing narratives about Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to the U.S. and his recent encyclical on ecology, Laudato Si', one point is clear: “The Church is not in conflict with science,” Richmond Bishop Francis DiLorenzo told a crowd in Norfolk Tuesday...
The Encyclical and the Tidewater: Bishop DiLorenzo to welcome Church, Community and Military experts to Norfolk to discuss Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, rising tides
In Iowa, Bishops talked about extreme weather and its relationship to Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment. In Cincinnati, the local Archbishop used the encyclical to urge Ohioans and public officials to take steps to conserve energy. In...
Undercover videos bring us back to cruel reality: Aborting babies is big business and is happening where we live
By Jeff Caruso, Executive Director Like many others, I was horrified after watching two undercover videos in which Planned Parenthood officials nonchalantly discussed harvesting and distributing body parts of aborted babies for research. Produced by the pro-life...
Despite Court ruling, the Church will hold to the truth about marriage – with charity
Last week’s disappointing and troublesome Supreme Court decision that imposes a false definition of marriage on all 50 states was not surprising or unexpected. Many are celebrating. However, Friday’s ruling by nine unaccountable judges is nevertheless an attempt to...
Laudato Si’ calls for dialogue, action to combat global climate change and preserve our common home
The release of Pope Francis’s second encyclical, Laudato Si’, last week has sparked a much-needed global conversation about how human and environmental ecology are inextricably intertwined. Laudato Si’ is the first papal encyclical to acknowledge the effects of human...
Virginia Catholic Conference marks a decade of advancing the common good
This year the Virginia Catholic Conference celebrates its 10th anniversary. In this “from the tiber to the james” video blog post Executive Director Jeff Caruso reminisces about the early days of the Conference and looks ahead to the future. Take a look!...
Bishops call for changing the death penalty debate
In a recent letter to the president of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Pope Francis wrote, “Today capital punishment is unacceptable, however serious the condemned’s crime may have been. It is an offence to the inviolability of life and to the...
The other threat posed by same-sex “marriage”: religious liberty in peril
Last week, the movement to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples reached a crescendo in oral arguments presented before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Obergefell v. Hodges, seeks to overturn a decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding marriage...
This Week at the 2015 Virginia General Assembly-Week 6
The 2015 session of the Virginia General Assembly is entering the home stretch as Senate and House Committees race to hear bills that have passed the other chamber and get them to the floor for a vote before the 46-day session comes to an end next Saturday. The House...
This Week at the 2015 Virginia General Assembly-Week 5
Tuesday marked the “crossover,” the half-way point of the 46-day Virginia General Assembly session. Going forward, each chamber may only consider legislation that has passed the other chamber. On Thursday, both the House of Delegates and Senate passed their...
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