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By George Weigel
Although he scored 40 times in an eight-year NFL career, he is best known for the touchdown he didn’t score, as the sun set over Yankee Stadium Dec. 28, 1958. His wife of 59 years, Joan, said that Jim Mutscheller, who died April 10, wanted to be known as a man “who had led a […]
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Ron Riggins, a parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Burke, was elected to a three-year term on the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. The election took place last month at the committee’s meeting in Jacksonville, Fla. A convert to Catholicism, Riggins is a core team leader for the Arlington Diocese’s Unbound […]
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By Patricia Zapor
ALBANY, N.Y. – Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, who went from hometown schoolteacher to Vatican correspondent, lived out her drive to be a writer even in her last days. She died April 28 in her hometown of Albany, New York, after a battle with cancer. Sister Mary Ann, 68, had stepped down last summer from […]
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: On Easter Sunday, the priest at my parish made a point in his homily about the burial cloths left in the tomb of the Lord. I know about the Shroud of Turn being the burial cloth of Jesus, but is there another cloth that we have? – A reader in Sterling A: In the […]
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By Katie Scott
A suicide reverberates with an added layer of loss and heartbreak when the life ended was a young one. And there have been many such deaths in the news recently. On April 13, a College of William and Mary student killed himself, the fourth to do so this year at the Williamsburg university. Last year, […]
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By Michelle Martin and Joyce Duriga
CHICAGO – Cardinal Francis E. George was fond of reminding people that their relationships with God and with each other are what endures and everything else “goes to the grave,” Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain told worshippers at Holy Name Cathedral during the cardinal’s funeral Mass. “The only thing we take with us when we […]
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By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – The questions raised by Supreme Court justices as they considered April 28 whether they should rule that same-sex marriage should be made legal nationwide covered a gamut of rights concerns – religious, equal protection, state’s ability to enact their own laws. In two and a half hours of oral arguments, the line of […]
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By Mike Flach
Holy Martyrs of Vietnam Church in Arlington has 11 different choirs that enhance the numerous weekend liturgies at the busy parish. Music Director Han Pham had the difficult task of blending all of those voices into one combined choir for the Multicultural Choral Concert held April 25 at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria. The […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Ordaining 19 men to the priesthood, Pope Francis not only told them to make sure their homilies were not boring, but he offered them advice on how to ensure their preaching would touch people: speak from your heart. Priests are called to nourish the faithful, he said, so they must ensure “that […]
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