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What’s distinctive about your parish? What is your parish’s charism? Our parish is lovingly cared for by Missionhurst priests. Because none of them were raised in the U.S., they bring a global perspective of Catholicism. The cultural diversity of the parish has grown steadily, with people from many different backgrounds feeling welcome here. St. Ann Parish has strong social outreach ministries. Through many volunteers, we support Catholic Charities’ Migration and Refugee Services and St. Lucy Food Project and a number of local organizations that serve the poor and the marginalized.
Imagine a football game, but instead of the usual chanting, cheering and movement, all you hear is the grunts of the football team and coaches. Rather than wall-to-wall cheering fans, only empty bleachers flank the field. That surreal situation was a reality last year for schools across the nation. At St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, students wanted to make sure that was not the reality this year. The school needed normal school spirit back.
It’s sometimes said Pope St. John Paul II was the most intellectually gifted occupant of the See of Peter ever, but inasmuch as the line of popes stretches back two millennia and includes some known to history only by their names, there is no realistic way of verifying that.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated the annual Mass for Marriage Jubilarians Oct. 17 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. Couples from around the diocese celebrating their silver (25 years) and golden (50 years) wedding anniversaries were encouraged to attend.
A hospice program assists pregnant mothers whose unborn babies are seriously ill.
The annual diocesan Retirement Fund for Religious collection will take place Nov. 13-14 at parishes across Northern Virginia. The appeal, coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office in Washington, helps communities across the country support aging Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests.
A three-year celebration of the Arlington diocese’s Golden Jubilee will kick off this November and continue through the official 50th anniversary in 2024.
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Cardinal Raymond L. Burke said his recovery from COVID-19 is continuing with the help of physical therapy and he is now able to celebrate daily Mass.
The largest national camporee for American Heritage Girls saw 460 girls and 300 adults from Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina camped out on the Fredericksburg Agricultural Fairgrounds Oct. 16. This is the fourth year the camporee has taken place in Fredericksburg, according to organizers Maureen Siegmund and Lynne Malinowski, parishioners of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fredericksburg.
VATICAN CITY — Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, recounted his Oct. 17-19 visit to Haiti in a recent op-ed.
