Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Creating a Catholic Church she can belong to
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — June 3, 2022
(RNS) — Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, is often asked why she doesn’t leave a church whose direction she often questions. But she long ago found that Catholicism offered the very theology that promised her, and so many others, belonging.
On eve of March for Life, Catholic abortion rights advocates counterprotest pro-life vigil
By Jack Jenkins — January 21, 2022
(RNS) — The group Catholics for Choice projected slogans on the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as worshippers inside held an anti-abortion vigil.
Financially hit by COVID-19, Washington National Cathedral lays off staff
By Kathryn Post — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — The cathedral isn’t the only prominent house of worship experiencing financial challenges as a result of the pandemic.
Justice Scalia eulogized at funeral Mass as man of faith and man of law
By Richard Wolf — February 20, 2016
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court justice's Catholicism was hailed at the liturgy, celebrated by his son, a priest, who also joked about his father's reputation as a controversial jurist.
Scalia funeral set for largest Catholic church in North America Saturday
By Lauren Markoe — February 16, 2016
(RNS) A funeral Mass will take place at Washington's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Pope Francis to visit US churches of history, grandeur and power
By Adelle M. Banks — September 15, 2015
(RNS) He'll make stops at prominent churches that have drawn the faithful and the curious for decades. From the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, here are a few of the churches on Pope Francis' itinerary.
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