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Rev. Richard J. Kelley, Pastor

Heavenly Father, We pray for all of the people and programs at St. Christopher Parish. Unite us as a community of believers and grant us the wisdom, grace, and strength to do your will. We ask this through Christ our Lord. -- Amen.
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Hitching a REALLY first-class ride
When you’re preparing for a visit by the pope, sometimes even mundane tasks like checking the logistics at an airport take on larger-than-life aspects. For Msgr. David Malloy, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, that meant hitching a ride on Air Force One from Washington to New York ...
Souvenirs at the ready for pope?s visit
When Pope Benedict XVI comes to town April 15, very few people will get the chance to be up close and personal with him. But that has not stopped hundreds of snapshots from circulating around Washington that show people posing happily alongside the pope before he even sets foot in this country. At closer ...
Papal parties and more details about his visit to the U.S.
VATICAN CITY -- Yes, at least one rendition of "Happy Birthday" and a formal celebration of Pope Benedict XVI's 81st birthday April 16 are part of the program for the pope's trip to the United States. More solemnly, but still personally, the schedule also includes a public acknowledgement April 19 of the ...
Prayers for the papal trip from across the ocean
ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI joined members of the Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community for an afternoon prayer service today. Although the visit marked the 40th anniversary of the community -- committed to serving the poor, to dialogue and to peacemaking -- it also focused on the example of Christians who gave ...
Charlton Heston?s other ?holy? roles
Just about everyone familiar with cinema knows that Charlton Heston, who died April 5 at age 84, played Moses in the 1956 Hollywood classic "The Ten Commandments." But it would take a real film buff to remember the other "holy" roles Heston played, including St. Thomas More in a 1988 TV ...
Navigating coverage of Benedict?s trip
Buckets of ink -- both real ink and cyberink on blogsites -- are being spilled these days on what the media coverage of Pope Benedict's U.S. trip will be like. One of the better commentaries that I've seen on how to navigate that coverage appears in an unsigned editorial in ...
Pilgrims of the world honor JPII
VATICAN CITY -- Thousands of people flocked to St. Peter's Square Tuesday to attend a memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II, who died on that date three years ago.  The blue balloons on this Google map show you just some of the places they all traveled from. I talked to several people in the ...
Washington Metro subway system offers ?Mass Pass?
A lot of special events in Washington these days are drawing big numbers and keeping Metro subway operators on their toes, what with a shiny new ballpark now open and the spring's annual cherry blossom festivities in full bloom. Add to that Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to the nation's capital April 15-17. So Metro ...
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus -1 Thessalonians 5
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