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By Elizabeth Foss
It doesn’t take much these days to trigger a heated conversation. Sometimes it’s a news headline, sometimes a stray comment on social media, sometimes a tense family dinner. In these moments, many Catholics feel caught: we want to speak truth, but not in a way that adds to division or hostility. We want to preserve […]
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By Jim Hale
Jim Connor’s retirement in 2013 after a career as a tax attorney didn’t last long. He went right back to work as a math teacher at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington. “I always wanted to go back and teach math again,” said Connor, who started coaching track in his third year at O’Connell and […]
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By Jim Hale
Before packing up for another much-anticipated summer vacation, John Cuddeback suggests a different way of thinking about the potential and purpose of vacations. Much more than simply relaxation and fun, a vacation offers “practice for life,” said Cuddeback, a professor of philosophy at Christendom College in Front Royal who shares his reflections on intentional Catholic […]
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Father Frederick Edlefsen, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Arlington, blessed and dedicated a new prayer garden devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 29, built by Jimmy Mazel for his Eagle Scout project.
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Parishioners at Nativity Catholic Church in Burke have donated $719,290 to Food For The Poor through its Operation Starfish fundraising campaign, making it the largest gift in the 27-year history of the partnership between the two organizations.
Pope Leo XIV
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
During an audience of religious sisters belonging to several orders, Pope Leo XIV told the group that rootedness in Christ allows them to “do things they perhaps never thought they could achieve.”
Global
By Robert Duncan
ROME — Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell — but not with the Chinese Communist Party.
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
“Don’t give up the ship.” Those five words were the dying command of Capt. James Lawrence during the War of 1812. Mortally wounded in battle at sea, he gasped this final order to his crew as the ship slipped into enemy hands. Lawrence didn’t live to see what his words would spark — but his […]
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By Mary Beth Bonacci
“And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” Gen 2:25 In our journey through the “Theology of the Body,” we have talked about the importance and dignity of every human person, the fact that we are created to find fulfillment in giving ourselves in love, the nature of love as […]
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By Robert Corsi
The Knights of Columbus Father Sikora Council No. 7992 at Nativity Catholic Church in Burke completed building their 27th home for a needy family in the heart of Appalachia last month, continuing an annual, parish-wide initiative.
