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By Zoey Dimauro
After eight years of serving the Arlington Diocese, Superintendent of Schools Sister Bernadette McManigal, B.V.M., has announced her retirement, and the search for her replacement has begun. Dan Curtin, diocesan consultant for Catholic education, has been asked by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde to spearhead the effort. But before he combs through resumes, he and […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
National Catholic Schools Week, which runs this year from Jan. 31 through Feb. 6, is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service” is this year’s theme that schools will observe through Masses, open houses and activities for students, families, parishioners and the community. Daily […]
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By Dave Borowski
In 2009, the Knights of Columbus began a new program – Coats for Kids – to provide new winter coats to deserving children. It’s a cooperative effort between local councils and the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council. Councils raise the money and decide how many children they can provide coats to, then order the coats […]
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By Fr. Gerry Creedon
It started badly. I woke up the first morning in Pedro Santana thinking I had a flat tire and a dead battery in my rented car. The battery was not dead; I just needed to learn how to use the button ignition. And the puncture was no problem. Father Keith O’Hare arrived with the church […]
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By Katie Scott
You hungrily scan the rows of plump bagels and cinnamon-and-sugar covered pastries at your favorite cafe, carefully selecting the perfect pairing for your midday coffee or post-Mass outing. But what happens to the bread-based items at the end of the day or after they’ve reached their sell-by date? Much of it likely goes from display […]
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By Katie Scott
Saving baked goods from the landfill, Bread for Our Brothers diverts items to the local needy.
Schools
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Anyone who says Latin is a dead language has probably never met the Certamen team at St. Veronica School in Chantilly. The dedicated group of sixth-, seventh- and eighth- graders travel to competitions around the region where they participate in fast-paced rounds of questions and answers about Roman culture and the Latin language. Sometimes the […]
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By George Weigel
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked policy with more disastrous social consequences than the “one-child policy” China began to implement in the early 1980s – a state-decreed population-control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced […]
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By Fr. John J. Dolan, Osfs
This Jubilee year invites us to be missionaries of mercy who flood the world with acts of mercy and love so as to counter the many other acts that are far from pleasing to God. Mercy is a call to act in accord with the tender love that Jesus showed when He was among us […]
Schools
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama signed the sweeping bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act in December, he described it as a “Christmas miracle.” “This is an early Christmas present. After more than 10 years, members of Congress from both parties have come together to revise our national education law,” he said. The other part of […]
