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Gov. Northam lifted COVID-19 restrictions, including capacity limits and social distancing requirements, Friday.

Father Eric Banecker is celebrating more weddings these days, and he is thinking about the two

Portland, Maine, Apr 15, 2018 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The word ‘hermit’ might conjure up some strange images, a la John the Baptist living reclusively in the desert, wearing a hair shirt and eating locusts and honey. The word itself comes from the Greek ‘eremos’, meaning wilderness or an isolated place. The vocation of a hermit became most popular among early Christians, who, inspired by Old Testament saints such as Elijah and John the Baptist, desired to live a life set apart and therefore withdrew into the desert in order to live lives of prayer and penance. But the vocation is...

Local Catholic association supports physicians in their vocation Founded in the 1950s, the Portland Catholic Physicians Guild ‘allows men and women of faith to share with courage and knowledge church teaching in the world,’ says guild chaplain Dr. Saad Jazrawi, president of the Portland Catholic Physicians Guild, holds daughter Samar, age 7 months, during a dinner following the annual White Mass for Catholic health care workers in 2019. “If I combine my faith and my work, I’m a better Catholic and a better physician,” said Jazrawi. (Ed Langlois/Cat...

Homes, walls, clothes: grey is a popular color that reflects the conformity of our age, writes Father Eric Banecker. The vigor of a robust Catholicism can bring beauty and light to our world.