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Liturgically, November is the month during which we are especially mindful of death — ours and that of the people who have gone before us.
When and if you step into the world of parenting, no one hands you the playbook.
The National Council of Catholic Women was established in Washington by the U.S. bishops in 1920. In a nod to those roots, the NCCW will hold its centennial convention in the Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital next summer.
Anyone arriving early for the Nov. 2 opening of the 27th International Week of Prayer and Fasting at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception found an usher tugging at their sleeve.
Forty years ago, Daisy Finney might have been the last person expected to volunteer to cook and serve the evening meal at Catholic Charities Christ House in Alexandria. Her husband of 20 years had just died. Grieving, she was left with two teenage sons to raise and a full-time job at Riggs National Bank.
Dwayne Bryant will be the new athletic director at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria beginning June 2020. Bill Simmons will continue as the interim athletic director through the school year.
Every year, the community of Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores celebrates the feast day of its patron, St. John Paul II, the 264th pope. John Paul Day last month was filled with a variety of fun activities and seemed to be a great stress reliever for many students as the end of the first term approached. Instead of attending classes all day, students socialized with friends and explored aspects of the Catholic faith.
For more than a decade, students at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington have been participating in a weeklong exchange program with their counterparts across the Atlantic. For many years, it was a back and forth exchange with students in France — one year O’Connell hosts, and then the next year they travel. But over the past five years, the program has expanded to include a sister school in Spain as well. So in the middle of October, 30 students from O’Connell boarded a plane together at Dulles Airport, bound for Paris. In Paris, half the group headed to the town of Reims — just over an hour and a half drive east of the city — while the rest of the group boarded a connecting flight to Barcelona.
WASHINGTON — The mission and foundation of Catholic education are directly related to evangelization, said the head of the National Catholic Educational Association.
When Andrea del Verrocchio’s bronze sculpture of “Christ and St. Thomas” was installed in its niche overlooking a busy street in Florence in 1483, it so awed the Florentines that one writer hailed it as “the most beautiful head of the Savior ever made.”
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