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By Katie Bahr
As the old expression says, “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” Those words certainly ring true for Deacon Brendan Bartlett, who spent years pursuing a career in federal law enforcement before discerning a call to the priesthood in his late 20s. “Everybody was surprised, but nobody was more surprised than […]
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By Katie Bahr
Since being ordained to the transitional diaconate last June at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, Deacon Christopher Hayes has served at St. Joseph Church in Dowington, Pa., while finishing his final year of theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. Though he’s enjoyed taking on the responsibilities of a deacon […]
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By Dave Borowski
Deacon Jason Burchell’s grandfather served in World War II and would tell him stories of piloting a B-24 Liberator over Italy. It was heady stuff that stayed with him all the way through seminary. “I looked up to him,” he said. “I wanted to fly.” Things didn’t work out entirely as planned. On June 8, […]
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Grueling sci-fi adventure set 1,000 years after humans have been forced to evacuate an environmentally despoiled Earth. While on an intergalactic military mission, a general (Will Smith) and his teen son – played by Smith’s real-life son Jaden – become the sole survivors of a crash landing on the Blue Planet. With Dad temporarily disabled […]
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Pleasant 3-D animated fantasy in which a 17-year-old girl (voice of Amanda Seyfried) finds herself magically transported to a miniature world within nature where the champions of growth and life (their leader voiced by Colin Farrell) battle the dark forces of decay (their commander voiced by Christoph Waltz). While becoming caught up in the conflict, […]
Movies
A thought-provoking – yet flawed – exploration of the wide-ranging impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks both on individuals and on whole cultures. In 2011 Pakistan, a journalist (Liev Schreiber) has been recruited by the CIA to interview the chief suspect (Riz Ahmed) in the kidnapping of an American professor. Things may not be as […]
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By Seth Gonzales
GRAPEVINE, Texas – The Boy Scouts of America’s National Council voted late May 23 to allow openly gay youths admittance as members into the 103-year-old organization, effective Jan. 1, 2014. In a statement, the organization said the decision to review the organization’s ban on accepting homosexuals as members was made based on “growing input from […]
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By Katie Bahr
For the past eight months, students from around the diocese have been working their way through a list of 15 books, reading in their free time and meeting weekly with classmates and teachers to discuss what they’ve learned. All those hours of preparation built to an epic conclusion May 21, as students from 19 local […]
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When: Tuesday, June 4 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington Baccalaureate Mass: June 3 at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield at 7 p.m. Total graduates: 213 Graduates include: Justin Michael Holmes, Michaela Joy Mulokey, Seroja Nikoli Boyakhchian, Thomas Anthony Kelly, Emily Elizabeth Hutton, […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
Chris E. Domes, who has been on the staff of Marymount University in Arlington since 1996, has been named the 10th president of Silver Lake College of the Holy Family in Manitowoc, Wis. Silver Lake College is a four-year, private, Catholic liberal arts college that was founded and continues to be sponsored by the Franciscan […]
