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By Ashleigh Kassock
High school can be tough, but on rare occasions it can be a place of grace. It was for the McCoppin family, and especially for their eldest daughter Kelly who just graduated from Saint John Paul the Great High School in Potomac Shores.
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By Anna Donofrio
It’s not every day that a parish turns 230 years old. As the Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria celebrates its milestone anniversary this year, parish historian Kitty Guy and archival manager Virginia Nyce released an updated book on the parish’s history. The new book, “Brick Chapel to Basilica: A History of Virginia’s Oldest Catholic […]
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By Jim Hale
As the oldest son in a Peruvian immigrant family, Deacon Alfredo Tuesta did what his sense of duty and his culture compelled him to do. “We came from very humble beginnings,” said Deacon Tuesta. “When I say I come from Lima, I don’t mean that I come from the elite, but from the outskirts. I […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
A crazy eye thing happened last weekend. A kind of system breakdown that will permanently alter the way I see things. Literally. But probably figuratively, too.
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By Zoey Maraist
Picture a Trojan horse made of pretzels, a lab setup to extract DNA from a strawberry and a starfish sculpture. It’s all part of “Night at the Museum” at St. Mark School in Vienna May 21.
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By Jim Hale
Deacon Jordan Evans was already a missionary for Christ. But another distinct calling emerged when he went on an eight-day silent retreat in 2018. “I was actually dating somebody at the time,” said Deacon Evans, 29. “But I was moved to prayer with the passage of the call of St. Peter, which is Luke Chapter […]
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Pope Leo XIV
By Anna Donofrio
In the days following his May 18 Inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV continued to add to the list of his papal “firsts.” These “firsts” included the canonical possession of Rome’s major papal basilicas and his first weekly Wednesday audience. Several dozen diocesan parishioners received the opportunity to witness these firsts. Father Jonathan M. Smith, parochial […]
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By Anna Donofrio
The year was 2004. The Diocese of Arlington had just celebrated its 30th anniversary. And Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde and Richmond Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo realized that the two Virginia dioceses needed a state conference to advocate for the Catholic Church on the legislative level. “It was important for both bishops to be able […]
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By Jim Hale
It was Mother Maria Lucia’s mother who urged her and her younger sister to go to Fatima, Portugal, in 1980. “We were two young women on our first pilgrimage to Fatima,” said Mother Maria, who was working as a nurse at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. “Prayer was at the center of […]
