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WASHINGTON — More than 40 percent of Trinity Washington University's full-time undergraduate students opened their emails from the university July 23 to learn they will start the school year with a clean financial slate, because the university paid off their outstanding debts.
A new program helps students work with marginalized communities.
Over the summer, students from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington participated in two different service learning camps — Food-for-Life and Housing-for-Life — where they volunteered for three days at local nonprofits and participated in community initiatives.
A growing number of students have been taking a timeout from academics for a year to gain hands-on learning experience in the world outside the classroom.
NAIROBI, Kenya — As they marked the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrated the Congo Basin as the second "lung" of the earth and called for its protection to fight climate change.
After Mass Sept. 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a young man told his mother he was thinking of joining the priesthood. During a healing service following the Mass, the 14-year-old and his mother approached the altar. There, at the foot of the cross, Deacon Leo Flynn prayed over the young man and anointed him with blessed oil. Later that night, Deacon Flynn asked the shy teenager if he wanted to be a priest.
The Stella Marina ministry helps parishioners create 1,200 supply kits for newborns to be sent to Haiti.
Fr. Weston served at the shrine in DC before assuming his new diocesan role.
The two men will study and then serve in the Arlington diocese before returning to Cameroon.
