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Art
A traveling art show and concert series, part of the second preparatory year for the Diocesan Golden Jubilee celebration, is themed, “Rejoice!” It features local musicians playing Marian-themed pieces and exhibitions of newly commissioned artwork painted by local Catholic artists, who were inspired by Catholic Charities ministries. Dates include Oct. 6, Oct. 11, Oct. 27, […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
Do you know what the most liberating, transformative, kind thing you can do for yourself is? Forgive. Get very still and very quiet and ask yourself what grudges and hurts you’re holding onto today. Whether it is someone else or ourselves, there is always someone we need to forgive. Forgiveness is a glorious self-care tool. […]
National
By Mariana Barillas and Matt Palmer
A group of student ministers at The Catholic University of America in Washington cheered on the Earley family as their car arrived behind Ryan Hall last month. Erin, mother to first-year student Joseph, was teary. It wasn’t because she feared saying goodbye to her child on move-in day. She was touched by the kindness of […]
National
The Catholic University of America in Washington celebrated the beginning of the academic year last month at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with the Mass of the Holy Spirit, an annual tradition where the community gathers to pray for guidance and grace from God. University Marshal and Law Professor Regina […]
National
By Daniel F. Drummond
With the largest incoming class since 2010 arriving on campus, officials at The Catholic University of America in Washington conducted a safety walk last month to demonstrate improvements to security on and around campus — and what still needs to be done. Led by Associate Vice President of Public Safety and Emergency Management Major Kirk […]
Local
A weekly seminar on bioethics will be presented by Nashville Dominican Sister Malia Grace Reed every Tuesday through Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores. Sister Reed is the chair of the high school’s bioethics department. She has been a Nashville Dominican for 13 years […]
Local
Christendom professor Andrew Whitmore recently joined the “Christendom Conversations” podcast to speak on St. Thomas Aquinas and virtue. The podcast launched last year with three episodes, including a conversation with college President Timothy O’Donnell on the founding of the college. Christendom’s Executive Vice President Mark Rohlena and college faculty members discuss insights on the faith […]
Global
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican urged members of the U.N. Security Council to be “creative and courageous artisans of peace and weavers of constructive dialogue” to find a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine. Addressing a meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York Sept. 20, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign […]
Local
By Anna Harvey
In the two years since the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan Aug. 15, 2021, when many fled the country, Catholic Charities Migrant and Refugee Services has resettled more than 2,000 Afghan refugees in Northern Virginia. Meet some of the Afghans who escaped and now call the United States their home. Najiba Mohammadi Najiba Mohammadi raced […]
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Schools
By Anna Harvey
“We adore thee, O Christ, and we praise thee,” Father John P. Mosimann prompted, to which 425 students shouted in return, “Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world!” Last week, Holy Cross Academy in Fredericksburg celebrated the feast of the Holy Cross, the school’s namesake, Sept. 14. The day kicked off with […]
