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By Kyle Taylor
RICHMOND – Death penalty opponents lost a battle this week when a House committee endorsed a bill to make electrocution the default punishment if lethal injection is unavailable. The Virginia Catholic Conference, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty opposed House Bill 815, which would allow the […]
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By Katie Scott
Wedding to-do lists can feel endless and daunting: Nail down a venue, chose the color scheme, select a band. But your officiant – the priest or deacon saying the words of the marriage rite – should “not be like one more thing on a checklist,” said Father Edward J. Bresnahan, in residence at St. Mary […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Each memento in Rae and Bill Phillips’ Arlington apartment tells the story of their 71 years together. A picture from their wedding day hangs above a bowl of candy by their open front door. Near the photo sits their wedding cake topper, a figurine of a woman in a white dress and a man in […]
Schools
Avery Edwards, 5, reads with Missionhurst Fr. Anselme Malonda-Nkuanga, pastor of Precious Blood Church in Culpeper Feb. 2. Afterward, she told her mother she got the chance to read with “Fr. Handsome.” Fr. Anselme visited with classes at Epiphany School during religion class time as part of Catholic Schools Week activities.
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By For The Catholic Herald
Landon Labuskes, a junior at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, received a perfect score on the College Board’s Advanced Placement AB Calculus exam. Labuskes also is one of only 12 students in the world to earn every point possible on the exam. He took the exam last spring as a sophomore. In a […]
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By Katie Scott
On a Saturday evening last winter, 12 students gathered in the Goodson Chapel and Recital Hall at Shenandoah University for an event that was not only sacred but also historic. For the first time in the 140-year history of the Winchester school, there was a Catholic Mass on campus. “To have, in a more secular […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said his reasons for going to Mexico are “easy and simple.” “I want to come as a missionary of mercy and peace,” the pope said in a video message to the Mexican people released by the Vatican Feb. 7. “I want to meet with you to profess our faith together […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – A study issued Feb. 4 by the Washington-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate found that “a great majority” of those entering religious life had prior experience serving in at least one parish ministry. “The most common ministry service reported was liturgical ministry,” said the report, “followed by some form of faith […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
It’s time for the familiar, seasonal conversation. Every year, it’s about the same, just with different combinations of children. They talk about what to give up for Lent. They weigh one thing against another, testing the viability of various options. They bounce ideas off one another, and they are honest in rejecting or applauding those […]
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