Jan 14, 2021
January is Poverty Awareness Month, and in the past year, many of us heard of, or perhaps experienced, greater levels of poverty than ever before. Neighbors who have always struggled to pay their bills or rent have fallen further behind. Others, who lived on the...
Jul 17, 2018
Recently, on his Walk Humbly podcast, Diocese of Arlington Bishop Michael Burbidge responded to a question from a parishioner at St. Mark’s and Our Lady of Good Counsel parishes. Jay wanted to know what is the relationship between the Diocese of Arlington and Catholic...
Aug 24, 2017
By Brigid Hoagland, Catholic Charities Volunteer, (Benedictine College ’19) Photo Courtesy of Reverb Culture. This is the third installment of our series on the Role of the Laity in the Church. Read about Our Call to Serve here. *** In imitation of the Blessed...
Aug 18, 2017
The Call to Serve By Brigid Hoagland, Catholic Charities Volunteer (Benedictine College, ’19) Photo of an Hogar Education Services Volunteer teaching English as a second language class. Second in our summer series, you can read the first part “The Role...
Aug 11, 2017
“There is so much need today for mature Christian personalities, conscious of their baptismal identity, of their vocation and mission in the Church and in the world!” –Pope John Paul II, May 30, 1998, Message for the World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New...
Jul 25, 2017
We invite you to meditate of the St. Francis prayer as a way to better understand how God is calling you to be an instrument of peace in this world. The following reflection is from one of our Summer 2017 college student volunteers, John Treanor (Mount St....
