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Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and diocesan priests will celebrate an All Souls Day Mass for all the faithful departed at Fairfax Memorial Park in the Garden of the Crucifix, 9900 Braddock Rd., in Fairfax Nov. 2 at noon.

Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge addressed a gathering of 250 young adults at Theology on Tap at O’Sullivan’s Irish Pub in Arlington Oct. 16. Bishop Burbidge spoke on “The Importance of the Young Church as Witnesses.” The main dining room was filled to capacity, so an overflow crowd watched the Bishop’s talk on a TV […]

PVI Prays started as a few rosaries in the Fairfax school’s courtyard and turned into daily gatherings of students who come together with their teachers and peers and pray for those who are facing adversity, especially those dealing with the aftermath of the recent hurricanes and earthquakes.

Marymount University President Matthew D. Shank received the 2017 Community Partner Award from Edu-Futuro, an Arlington nonprofit that empowers under-resourced Latino and other immigrant youth through education, leadership development and family engagement. 

For the past year, Catholics for Housing has been working with the City of Manassas to purchase the East End Mobile Home Park, saving 58 families from eviction. It was made possible when the Manassas City Council voted unanimously Oct. 16 to subordinate its contract with the current owner of the property.

A 40-foot-tall cross memorializing soldiers who died in World War I that sits at a busy intersection in the Washington suburb of Bladensburg, Md., is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Oct. 18.

The question presented to Jesus about paying taxes to Caesar was not an invite to a leisurely discussion on a summer afternoon. Instead, the issue of taxation was a very fierce and divisive issue. The fact that present were rival groups such as the Pharisees, who opposed the payment of taxes to the occupying power of Rome, and the Herodians, who supported Roman taxation, shows that this was a question designed by both sides to ambush Jesus.

Recently, I have reflected on how all our relationships are broken relationships. This looks a bit dismal at first, but once we acknowledge it — and recognize the gift that friendship with Christ is — it’s a most liberating reality. Every human relationship will disappoint if we expect it to be perfectly whole. It’s doomed […]
The challenge of finding language in which believers and non-believers can communicate is unintentionally illustrated in a bestselling new book which predicts that human beings will soon reinvent themselves as gods.   The book, Homo Deus (Man God), is the work of Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian who achieved fame several years ago with […]

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