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By Christina Capecchi
It’s almost as if November’s Mass readings were written for election-weary Catholics, with their foreboding tones and calls for “perseverance” and “endurance” amid distress. “They will seize you and persecute you,” St. Luke warns. “Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light,” St. Paul exhorts. […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
For those who work with Bishop Loverde daily, the little things eclipse the big labels: the kindness as he holds the elevator for you; or remembers that today is the anniversary of your brother’s death; or takes the time to learn the name of the temp assisting down the hall.
Local
By Zoey Maraist
This summer, Cecilia Braveboy helped organize a prayer service for peace and racial healing at her home parish since childhood, Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church in Arlington. The recent shootings and riots across the nation sadly reminded her of the unrest she had lived through during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As […]
Local
By Elizabeth A. Elliott
Three parishes in Alexandria joined forces to purchase a refrigerated food truck to help diocesan Catholic Charities keep up with the demand for food among the diocese’s neediest. With this second truck, the St. Lucy Project will be able to pick up and deliver food donations. Father Thomas Ferguson, moderator of the curia and pastor […]
Local
The Bishop Ireton Cardinals beat the Paul VI Panthers 20-17 in a football game held Oct. 28 at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax. Buy photos from this game at catholicherald.smugmug.com.
Local
The girl’s team from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington took home the title for the 10th straight year at the WCAC Cross Country Championships held Oct. 29 at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston. Buy photos from this event at catholicherald.smugmug.com.
Local
By Rhina Guidos
WASHINGTON — The tension and frustration that the country feels over an election season filled with insults and rancor, feels a bit more amped up in Washington, the city where the winner of the presidential race will reside. With days to go before Election Day, the feast of All Saints seemed like a good […]
Schools
By Connor Bergeron
Students at St. Rita School in Alexandria are changing field trips to pilgrimages.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
MALMO, Sweden — The saints are blessed because they were faithful and meek and cared for others, Pope Francis said. At the end of an ecumenical trip to Sweden, Pope Francis celebrated the feast of All Saints Nov. 1 with a Catholic Mass in a Malmo stadium. He highlighted the lives of the Swedish […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
ROME — Priests in central Italy were instructed to celebrate Mass outdoors following another devastating earthquake that rocked the region and brought one its most spiritually and historically significant churches tumbling down. Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia-Citta della Pieve advised priests to not celebrate Mass indoors over the next several days, including Nov. 1, […]
