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Deacon John Wallin, left, and Guido Leutem, hold the completed wooden monstrance after adoration at St. Therese of Corcoran in Corcoran.  PHOTO COURTESY BARB HEMBERGER

St. Therese of Corcoran residents create wooden monstrance

After a resident at St. Therese of Corcoran noticed their chapel at St. Therese of Corcoran lacked a monstrance, Deacon John Wallin and residents of the living facility embarked on a project to make one from wood.
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Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, then a clinical associate professor at The Catholic University of America, speaks with a reporter at the university in Washington April 29, 2010. Msgr. Rossetti, who was removed as an Archdiocese of Washington exorcist June 3, 2026, is relaunching his nonprofit deliverance ministry, while remaining a priest in good standing in his home diocese, according to a July 13 announcement.

Msgr. Rossetti resumes deliverance ministry after removal as DC exorcist

A priest who was removed as an Archdiocese of Washington exorcist is relaunching his nonprofit deliverance ministry, while remaining a priest in good standing in his home diocese.
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A church window depicts the transfiguration of Christ, in which Moses and Elijah are seen with Jesus in a glorified state before the apostles Peter, James and John.

‘It is good for us to be here’: A reflection on the transfiguration of Jesus

Each year the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration on Aug. 6. The story of the transfiguration of Jesus appears in all three synoptic Gospels (cf. Mk 9:2-10; Mt 17:1-8; Lk 9:28-36). Almost all biblical scholars and spiritual writers agree that this intriguing story is important. They also agree that it almost defies interpretation.
Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, then a clinical associate professor at The Catholic University of America, speaks with a reporter at the university in Washington April 29, 2010. Msgr. Rossetti, who was removed as an Archdiocese of Washington exorcist June 3, 2026, is relaunching his nonprofit deliverance ministry, while remaining a priest in good standing in his home diocese, according to a July 13 announcement.

Msgr. Rossetti resumes deliverance ministry after removal as DC exorcist

A priest who was removed as an Archdiocese of Washington exorcist is relaunching his nonprofit deliverance ministry, while remaining a priest in good standing in his home diocese.
Pope Leo XIV high fives a young man at Piazza Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, Italy, Aug. 6, 2026, during the pope's pastoral visit to Assisi, which included a meeting with young people.

In Assisi, Pope Leo urges young people to become ‘new saints’

Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 6 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to become the "new saints" the world needs today.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington Aug. 5, 2026. Blanche signaled on a July private call with a predominantly Protestant Christian ministry that the Trump administration would be "putting practices and policies in place" to stop shipment of mifepristone by mail.

Blanche signals potential restrictions on mifepristone by mail coming from Trump administration

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled on a call with a predominantly Protestant Christian ministry that the Trump administration would be "putting practices and policies in place" to stop shipment of mifepristone by mail.
Deacon John Wallin, left, and Guido Leutem, hold the completed wooden monstrance after adoration at St. Therese of Corcoran in Corcoran.  PHOTO COURTESY BARB HEMBERGER

St. Therese of Corcoran residents create wooden monstrance

After a resident at St. Therese of Corcoran noticed their chapel at St. Therese of Corcoran lacked a monstrance, Deacon John Wallin and residents of the living facility embarked on a project to make one from wood.
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Founder of Edge of the Red Sea Ministry shares how to care for body and soul

Lacy Apfelbeck, founder of Edge of the Red Sea Ministry — a Christian nonprofit based in St. Francis that helps families and individuals find physical, emotional and spiritual healing — said her ministry does a lot of care for the mind.
This is the poster from the movie "72 Hours." The OSV News classification is O -- morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

72 Hours — R (O)

Comedian Kevin Hart headlines the trashy fish-out-of-water comedy "72 Hours" (Netflix). Though intended to be warm and good-hearted at its core, the film is too encrusted in innumerable coarse elements to make this nucleus of niceness worth discovering.
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner star in a scene from the movie "One Night Only."

One Night Only — R (O)

A frenzied search for sex occupies most of the running time of the comedy "One Night Only" (Universal). The intensity of the quest is due to the fact that the U.S. government has outlawed nonmarital encounters for all but one night of the year.
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Digital Edition – August 6, 2026

Emerald Festival, Partners in Mission gathering, PECS and parishes, Lord Renew Your Church, Into the woods, Parish Giving Garden
Person praying alone in a church

A voice from heaven?

Amid a windstorm, earthquake and fire, Elijah, in this weekend’s first reading, discerned God’s voice in the quiet whisper. Would that all of us could be like Elijah in discerning the voice of God! In discernment, we sort one thing from another; in this case, specifically, we sort God’s still, small voice from Satan’s and from our own internal voice (at least when it departs from God).
Map of Treasure Island

Learning to read the map

Before there was a story, there was a map. The map contained the story. Robert Louis Stevenson just had to stare at it long enough.
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A church window depicts the transfiguration of Christ, in which Moses and Elijah are seen with Jesus in a glorified state before the apostles Peter, James and John.

‘It is good for us to be here’: A reflection on the transfiguration of Jesus

Each year the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration on Aug. 6. The story of the transfiguration of Jesus appears in all three synoptic Gospels (cf. Mk 9:2-10; Mt 17:1-8; Lk 9:28-36). Almost all biblical scholars and spiritual writers agree that this intriguing story is important. They also agree that it almost defies interpretation.

A voice from heaven?

Seeking an understanding heart

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Map of Treasure Island

Learning to read the map

Before there was a story, there was a map. The map contained the story. Robert Louis Stevenson just had to stare at it long enough.
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