SEATTLE – On a recent Tuesday, Dianne DuSault and her daughter Tracy Craft teamed up to make chicken enchilada casserole for men staying at a shelter operated by Catholic Community Services of Western Washington.
SEATTLE – The Archdiocese of Seattle has reached settlements totaling just over $2 million in three separate cases involving allegations of sexual abuse against four priests of the archdiocese.
WOODINVILLE – Using plastic beads and string, more than a dozen women at St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish are working to spread the devotion of the rosary around the world.
I learned the Act of Contrition in second grade. Mrs. Tartamella would patiently practice with us every day. We’d go through the prayer line by line, and when we’d get to “I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to sin no more ...” there’d be a huge emphasis on the middle part of...
“A baby is God's way of saying the world should go on.”
The coronavirus vaccine is finally here. Not enough of it is here yet, and its rollout has not been without confusion and logistical tie-ups, but people are receiving their first doses. Already we see some first providers, medical professionals and politicians sharing photos of themselves being vaccinated.
Each year, as we enter the final stretch of Advent, the church brings forth from its treasury a collection of ancient prayers, “The Great O Antiphons,” which express our longing for the coming of Christ.
You can memorize this short prayer or keep a copy by your bed and make it the first thing you do when you wake up each day.
