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Biden attends Mass at DC church where he worshipped as VP ahead of busy first week
Washington DC, US AP President Joe Biden attended Mass for the first time since taking office, worshipping Sunday at the church he frequented when he was Vice President. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, picked Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington’s Georgetown neighbourhood, a few kilometres from the White House. It’s where the nation’s only other Catholic […]
US Episcopal diocese suspends Communion wine, drains baptismal fonts due to coronavirus
RNS After an Episcopal rector at a Washington church tested positive for coronavirus, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington is instituting a sweeping set of policies designed to help stop the spread of the disease – including suspending the use of wine during Communion. This week officials announced Rev Tim Cole, a rector at Christ Church […]