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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
A diocesan pilgrimage, new church building, nine new priests, a Gothic chapel, World Youth Day and religious sisters on a baseball field are some of the highlights celebrated in the Arlington diocese this year. The year’s festivities culminated in the inauguration of the Diocesan Golden Jubilee Year with solemn vespers and adoration.
Schools
By Lizzie and Allie Reback
Before and during the holiday season, students, faculty and staff at St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly are busy with service projects to help both their local and international communities. These projects are an expression of the school’s stated mission of serving others and making a positive impact in its community. One of […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
There’s nothing like getting ready for Christmas to remind us that we’re sinners in need of a savior. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but we feel overwhelmed and irritable. Some of us are exhausted or lonely. Shoppers rush by with their treasures — and their worries, and their dashed hopes, and their […]
National
The Saint John Paul II National Shrine will offer a temporary display on the exemplary life of the Ulma family beginning Jan. 12 and continuing through at least March 24, 2024, the 80th anniversary of their martyrdom. The display, titled: “The Good Samaritans of Markowa: The Sacrificial Love of the Ulma Family” is centered on […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Each year, the Porres family uses paint, dried flowers and herbs, dabs of glue, insulation sheets and hundreds of Italian figurines to create their own little town of Bethlehem. Water cascades down a miniature mountain and flows beside a vineyard and an olive grove. Merchants sell their wares, shepherds tend their flocks, birds fly on […]
Global
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Millions of pilgrims flock to Rome every 25 years to mark a Holy Year, or jubilee, the Catholic Church’s more modern celebration of an ancient Jewish practice of forgiveness. And through partnerships with prisons and incarcerated persons, the Vatican hopes to show those visitors that the spirit of forgiveness remains front and […]
Art
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Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? One of the striking things about Holy Family Church is that it is a hidden gem amid a busy, well-traversed area. Prince William County near Potomac Mills is a well-known traffic route. Despite this, you can find a quiet, wooded area shielded from that traffic maelstrom. It is sort of […]
Global
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
Exchanging Christmas gifts and organizing holiday parties are all well and good, but Christians should contemplate the scene of Jesus’ birth to recover what is truly important during the Christmas season, Pope Francis said. At his weekly general audience Dec. 20, just five days before Christmas, the pope told people that “the risk of losing […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
After a nearly 30-year career in international development, Eugene McCarthy began a new one: advising and supporting the Holy See’s mission in the Americas. Some 15 years later, the Holy See bestowed a high honor upon him during a ceremony in Washington Dec. 7. McCarthy received the “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice” (“For Church and Pope” […]
