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By Dave Borowski
Aug. 10, the day of the annual Arlington Diocese altar server picnic, started out with gray skies and a threat of rain. That gloomy forecast didn’t stop more than 280 people, including altar servers, seminarians, priests, families and chaperones from coming to Lake Fairfax Park in Reston to honor boys and girls who serve their […]
Local
By Lyndsey Raynor
Ed Myers, a Sterling resident and a parishioner of Christ the Redeemer Church, has a new, environmentally friendly vehicle he uses to get to work. In May, Myers purchased an ELF FR, a low-speed electric bicycle that seats two people and has a battery-powered motor, which can be charged by a solar panel or an […]
National
By Christine Stoddard
Human trafficking “cries out for a Herculean response,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who has authored legislation on the matter since the ’90s. “It falls to each of us – and like-minded people everywhere – to wage an unceasing campaign to eradicate human trafficking from the face of the earth.” “We are our brothers’ and […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
“If I could have only a sliver of the impact St. Teresa of Ávila had for Jesus, I would consider my life’s work worthwhile.” Those were the words of Colleen Carroll Campbell, the accomplished print and EWTN journalist who authored the award-winning book, My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir. The book chronicles how connecting […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
If spending a weekend meditating on your spiritual journey seems like a rare luxury, consider the value your stories may hold one day for your children, your grandchildren and future generations. That’s what Colleen Duffy Kiko and MaryBeth Piccinino, organizers of the Sept. 11-13 Faithbooking Retreat at San Damiano Spiritual Life Center in White Post, […]
Global
By Dale Gavlak
FUHEIS, Jordan – A papal envoy and top Mideast Catholic leaders, including the patriarchs of Iraq and Jerusalem, reminded the world that the persecuted Christians of Iraq are not to be forgotten or abandoned. The appeal came at a prayer service expressing solidarity with Iraqi Christian refugees made homeless a year ago by Islamic State […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Selfishness and fear keep too many people ignorant of the suffering of others and prevent them from finding creative ways to express solidarity and to promote peace, said a statement from the Vatican’s justice and peace office. To promote a reflection on the need for a “conversion of mind and heart” open […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
In 1862, a diocesan priest from Belgium, Father Theophile Verbist, was inspired to bring the Gospel to the people of China. Motivated by this goal, he formed the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary – Missionhurst. To this day, these missionaries travel the world to reach out to the most neglected people. Their mission […]
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By Stacy Rausch
Sister Deirdre “Dede” Mary Byrne has spent her life serving others while wearing multiple uniforms. Whether it was military fatigues while a Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps; scrubs in an operating room or on a missionary trip as a general surgeon; or the traditional black habit of the Little Workers of the Sacred […]
Local
By Soren Johnson
About the time the Planned Parenthood videos first started breaking, I was immersed in reading about one of my heroes, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Historian Michael Nicholson’s The Gulag Archipelago: A Survey of Soviet Responses allowed me to glimpse the details of how Solzhenitsyn’s bombshell book on the Soviet prison camp system ripped through Soviet daily life. […]
