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1 week ago | 
richmondmagazine.com | D. Hunter Reardon
Those who have delayed getting a REAL ID — an upgraded version of a driver’s license required by federal law — may still have their doubts. After all, the requirement that all American citizens have upgraded identity verification was signed by President George W. Bush on May 11, 2005. Nearly 20 years later, it still has not been fully implemented, leaving a slew of lapsed deadlines in its wake.
But according to a U.S. Transportation Security Administration announcement Jan.
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4 weeks ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Ciertas estadísticas indican que la Iglesia Católica en los Estados Unidos está enfrentando muchas dificultades. Una encuesta hecha recientemente del Pew Research Center indicó que por cada persona que se une a la fe, habrán alrededor de ocho personas que la abandonarán. También indicó que solo el 29% de los católicos asisten a la misa dominical.
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4 weeks ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Certain metrics suggest that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is struggling. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 8.4 people leave the Church for every individual who joins, and that only 29% of Catholics attend weekly Mass. Though these statistics are real and troubling, it might be easy to forget that in 2022, the U.S. Religion Census found that the total Catholic population in the U.S. had actually grown by 2 million people in the past 10 years.
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1 month ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Over 4,000 permanent deacons from around the world were at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City Feb. 23 as Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, ordained 23 men to the diaconate. It was the spiritual climax of the Jubilee of Deacons, which took place at the Vatican from Feb. 21-23.
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1 month ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
En su encíclica “Deus Caritas Est” de 2005, el papa Benedicto XVI escribió: “Para la Iglesia, la caridad […] pertenece de su naturaleza y es manifestación irrenunciable de su propia esencia.”En la Conferencia de SHINE del 1 de marzo Ingrid Delgado, directora asociada de la Oficina de Relaciones Gubernamentales de la Conferencia Episcopal de los Estados Unidos (USCCB, por sus siglas en inglés), citó esta encíclica durante su presentación.
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1 month ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
In his 2005 encyclical “Deus caritas est,” Pope Benedict XVI wrote, “For the Church, charity … is a part of her nature, an indispensable expression of her very being.”At the SHINE Conference March 1, Ingrid Delgado, associate director for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Office of Government Relations, quoted the encyclical in her keynote speech.
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1 month ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
There was plenty to celebrate the night of Friday, Feb. 21, at Church of the Resurrection, Portsmouth. It was the 125th anniversary celebration of the Knights of Columbus Council #418, called St. Paul’s Council but now affiliated with all the Portsmouth and Chesapeake Cluster Parishes, including Church of the Resurrection, Portsmouth; Holy Angels, Portsmouth; St. Mary, Chesapeake; and St. Paul, Portsmouth. On the same occasion, the Knights celebrated the 125th anniversary of Assembly #1166.
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1 month ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Cuando el patriarca Jacob despertó de un sueño en el que veía una escalera que conectaba el cielo con la tierra, juró dar a Dios la décima parte de todo lo que tenía (Gn 28,12-22). Hoy, ya sea que soñemos con escaleras o simplemente vivamos nuestra vida diariamente como católicos en la fe, el llamado a compartir generosamente nuestros bienes sigue siendo tan importante como lo fue aquella noche para Jacob en la Tierra Santa.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
When the patriarch Jacob awoke from a dream of a stairway that connected the heavens and the earth, he vowed to give a tenth of everything he had to God (Gn 28:12-22). Today, whether we dream of ladders or simply live ordinary lives as faithful Catholics, the call for us to give from our bounty is as crucial as it was that night in the dusty Levant.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Hunter Reardon |Lily Nguyen Dunkle |D. Hunter Reardon
Call it a complete experience for participants of the annual Diocesan Youth Conference (DYC) and Catholic Campus Ministry Summit (Summit) in downtown Richmond. The weekend was complete with pure joy in Jesus, prayer, and community with hundreds of peers. Attendance at both events was the highest since the pandemic. Approximately 930 teens gathered for DYC at the Greater Richmond Convention Center and adjacent Marriott Feb. 7-9. Summit was a gathering of about 520 college students Feb.
