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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are victims of physical violence by a partner every year. Recently the Archdiocese of Washington Catholic Charities Domestic Violence Priest Advisory Committee guided the development of a new domestic violence pastoral resource packet. This will be a valuable tool to help priests, deacons, and parish staff in ministering to families living with domestic abuse. Today, drawing on material in this new resource, I want to present an overview of domestic violence.

On Sunday, October 14, 2018 Pope Francis canonized Blessed Paul VI, Blessed Oscar Romero, Blessed Vincent Romano, Blessed Francesco Spinelli, Blessed Nunzio Sulprizio, Blessed Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa, and Blessed Maria Katharina Kasper. In this column I want to focus on Saint Paul VI.

Two weeks ago I published a quiz that had been prepared by the United States Conference on Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Faithful Citizenship. Last week I gave the answers for the first ten questions owing to space requirements. Today I am giving the answers to the last ten questions in this week’s column. Are you ready? Here they are!

Last week I published a quiz that had been prepared by the United States Conference on Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Faithful Citizenship. This week I am giving the answers for the first ten questions owing to space requirements. I’ll give the answers to the last ten questions in next week’s column. Are you ready?

Two years ago I published here a Faithful Citizenship Quiz that I found on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) website. On Sundays October 21 and 28, Tony Bosnick, our Director of Social Concerns and Adult Formation is going to host two “brown bag” discussions at 1:00 p.m. in the Assisi Room in the rectory on Sunday, October 21 and Sunday, October 28. He is planning to look at Catholic Social Teaching and, in particular, our Bishops’ document on Faithful Citizenship.