Cathedral Connects

Our dear friend Virginia Mars died on Sept. 1 at age 94. Ginnie holds a special place in our hearts for her friendship, her leadership and her passionate commitment to this Cathedral.

Chances are, if you’re anything like me, you look around our nation right now and you’re deeply concerned by what you see. 

When 11 brave women put themselves forward for ordination 50 years ago, a young Rose Duncan remembers asking the rector at her parish in D.C. how he would address a female priest. His reply: "I don't."

Provost Jan Naylor Cope recognizes the significance of the 50th anniversary of women's ordination in The Episcopal Church, but still longs for the day when a female priest is just a priest, or a female bishop is just a bishop.

The Rev. Dana Corsello was sitting next to a male parish leader when a parishioner congratulated him on a spectacular worship service. "Why are you telling me?" he responded. "She's sitting right here, and she's the rector."

As the world pauses to remember the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that liberated Europe from tyranny, we unearthed Bishop Angus Dun's "Invasion Day" message from June 6, 1944.

Judy Shepard told us she was making a last-minute trip to Washington ... but she didn't tell us why.

As a Christian leader preparing to preside at services that commemorate Jesus of Nazareth’s last week on earth, I am haunted by suffering.

Provost Jan Cope asks you to imagine that you're headed on a journey for the next six weeks. What are you bringing with you? What will you leave at home?

One hundred years ago today, on Feb. 6, 1924, President Woodrow Wilson was buried at the Cathedral – the first and so far only U.S. president to be buried in Washington, D.C.