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By Christine Stoddard
Whether you know the Addams family from the ’90s movies, the ’60s television show or the long-running New Yorker cartoons, you know that macabre is their shtick. Now imagine that dark humor on stage. Katherine Miller, theater teacher at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, can and will. This year, Paul VI’s spring production […]
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By Bryan Christman
With winds howling and snow on the ground, indoor track team members from Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries donned hats and gloves and headed out of the gym every day after school this winter to train. New this school year, the team boasted a healthy roster and many promising athletes. […]
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By Katie Scott
When Maddie Rosso was about 6 years old, her mom asked what she wanted for Christmas. Rosso’s answer: to send school supplies to poor children in Africa. “She’s always thought of others,” said Rosso’s mother, Alyson. “She is the one who reaches out to the kid at the lunch table who doesn’t have a friend. […]
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By Christine Stoddard
“On the 17th day of April, 1861, Virginia issued the proclamation of secession, and the clouds which long since had gathered black and blacker over this country broke; the pen was declared useless, and it was left to the sword to settle the issues and contentions agitating the political parties of these States,” wrote Charles […]
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By John Garvey
Every year around this time, I go away with my three brothers to play golf for an extended weekend. Next to Christmas, it is my favorite time of the year. We have taken on greater family and professional responsibilities. Still, in more than 20 years, not one of us has missed our golf trip. It […]
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Is the devil real? Here is Msgr. Ronald Knox on that: “It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.” Msgr. Knox, eminent British convert, author, retreat master and translator of the Bible, may have been indulging in irony. But irony doesn’t […]
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Father Gerald Weymes, pastor of St. Timothy Church in Chantilly, baptized and confirmed RCIA candidates during the Easter Vigil April 4. Gerald Martineau photographed moments from the vigil for the Catholic Herald.
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By Dave Borowski
Hours before the beauty, and the crowds, of the April 2 Holy Thursday Chrism Mass began at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, a tradition that goes back further than many priests can remember took place in the St. Thomas More Cathedral School cafeteria. Dozens of eggs were scrambled, pounds of bacon and […]
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By Katie Scott
The Holy Thursday Chrism Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington was filled with both solemnity and joy – a fitting precursor to the Easter Triduum. In the annual liturgy, Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde blessed the oil of catechumens, the oil of the sick and the sacred chrism. From across the […]
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