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The Continuing Christian Development Institute of Northern Virginia graduated the first students from its four-year daytime Adult Faith Formation Volunteer Director program May 13. The 21 courses of the program were held at St. John Neumann Church in Reston from September 2011 through mid-May 2015. The graduates include: Ana Rose Peña from St. Anthony of […]
National
By Abbey Jaroma | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Once again the hills are filled with the sound of music, only this time the music soars from Benedictine monks rather than the Von Trapp family. In Norcia, Italy, about 70 miles northeast of Rome, there is an international community of monks who operate a craft brewery and spend hours a day chanting […]
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By Christine Stoddard
When Deacon Rich Miserendino headed to the University of Rochester in New York to study physics and music, he said he didn’t realize he “was looking for God.” Through math and campus faith exploration, he said he “encountered faith through divine providence.” Yet, what he described as a “convoluted vocation” didn’t involve immediately applying to […]
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By Stacy Rausch
“We heard perhaps a call for doing something different. To bring to the world a different way of living and being that is enshrined in love and service. Each one of us received some kind of call, and we all responded,” said Father David L. Martin, pastor of St. Luke Church in McLean during his […]
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I have a personal problem with the Fourth Commandment. It reads that we should honor our father and mother, but my own father is not an honorable man. He has always been a self-centered person who puts his own needs above everyone else’s. Right now he is elderly and sick with stage 4 cancer. […]
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June 13, 1989 – Deacon Jerome P. Knight June 15, 1990 – Msgr. Justin D. McClunn June 21, 1996 – Deacon Francis A. Appel June 23, 1984 – Father Thomas F. Egan June 24, 2011 – Deacon Robert J. Curtin
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By Bill Dodds
“What time is it really?” That’s what our son, Thomas, wanted to know on a road trip across the United States back in 1989. We crossed an invisible line, and suddenly we were in a different time zone, asking “but what time is it really?” I remember when the kids were even younger and a […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
Men repair stuff. I know – I’m resorting to stereotypes. But I don’t know any guys who find happiness by waking up day after day to a bunch of broken things. And yet, according to a friend of mine who oversees facilities for several dozen (yes, I said “dozen”) buildings, we are witnessing a crisis […]
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Father Robert C. Cilinski, pastor of Church of the Nativity in Burke, officially concluded the parish’s 2015 Operation Starfish campaign by presenting a check to Food For The Poor CEO/President Robin Mahfood May 28. The donation will be used to continue the development of Good Shepherd Village near Grand Boulage, Haiti. The village is named […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Sii” (Praised Be), a line from St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Creatures,” will be released June 18, the Vatican press office announced. “The date foreseen for the publication of the encyclical of the pope is Thursday, June 18,” said the statement released June 4. […]
