Virginia

Bishop Knestout also blessed work done by faithful volunteers, including the ceiling stencils and the altar in the sanctuary that holds the tabernacle.

FRONT ROYAL, Va. (OSV News) — “The British are coming! The British are coming!” That has been the cry throughout Front Royal, a small town of 16,000 in Virginia’s Shenandoah …

“This affects everyone — young girls, women, as well as the unborn. This is the darker shadow of (society) — what behaviors do we protect and enable?”

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington and Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond hail the halt of a bill that would have legalized assisted suicide in Virginia.

The Virginia General Assembly has sent a sweeping amendment enshrining a “fundamental right” to abortion in the Constitution of Virginia to a statewide referendum on the November ballot.

“Our vision here is to restore the dignity in policymaking.”

Voters in the contests in Virginia and New Jersey who said the economy was their first concern chose the Democratic gubernatorial candidates.

While “off-year elections have been a barometer of current sentiment,” they are not “a predictor of the next national elections.”

“I haven’t been to a Mass like that before,” said Dean Speed, who belongs to a Richmond parish. “It was really cool — definitely something different.”

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted in Virginia on two felony charges related to 2020 congressional testimony about the FBI’s investigation into alleged ties between President …