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When Pope Francis announced a Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan would be Feb. 23, Michael Gotta, a science teacher at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, knew he wanted his students to participate.
The American Legion, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019, was created to serve veterans. Locally, the Leonard W. Kidd Memorial American Legion Post 2001 in Ashburn has been serving veterans in Loudoun County since its founding in 2000.
President Donald Trump and congressional leaders paid tribute to the Rev. Billy Graham Feb. 28 in a brief ceremony before the public could pay respects to the evangelist while he lies in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
p class="Body">No students could be sent to the principal’s office at St. Michael School in Annandale Feb. 28.
While Pope Francis thinks Blessed Paul VI wrote "the greatest pastoral document that has ever been written," great writing does not make a pope a saint.
p class="Body">Bringing a background in literary themes and devices with him to the papacy five years ago, the pope has shown himself to be a master of metaphor and allegory.
The call to a change of heart and a change of life was a hallmark of the ministry of Jesus, of His forerunner, John the Baptist, and of His apostles. And the Lenten season, which has been part of the Christian year from the earliest days of the church, has always made repentance its centerpiece.
Dozens of Catholics, including men and women religious, were arrested near the U.S. Capitol Feb. 27 in the rotunda of a Senate building in Washington as they called on lawmakers to help young undocumented adults brought to the U.S. as minors obtain some sort of permanent legal status.
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Cleansing our temple
As each of the four Gospel evangelists provide an account of Jesus Christ cleansing the Temple, we recognize that it is a pivotal event in His ministerial life. John’s description provides a dramatic scene, as Jesus made a whip and drove out the money changers, those selling animals to be sacrificed, and even the animals themselves. Amid the turmoil, as Our Lord overturned tables, He shouted that His Father’s house should not be “a house of trade.”