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By Connor Bergeron
Seated below the St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel in Fairfax is the office of the chaplain of George Mason University’s Catholic Campus Ministry. Father James Searby, appointed chaplain in June, exudes excitement as he talks about the future. With the help of the staff, faculty and students, he hopes to continue the legacy of the established […]
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By Kurt Jensen
Mary Clover Moran has worked with squirmy 5-year-olds at Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria for more than four decades. Moran, 79, has been married for 58 years to husband, Pat, raised seven children and has 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with one more on the way. She has taught religious education classes, mostly to […]
Schools
By Kurt Jensen
Mary Clover Moran has worked with squirmy 5-year-olds at Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria for more than four decades. Moran, 79, has been married for 58 years to husband, Pat, raised seven children and has 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with one more on the way. She has taught religious education classes, mostly to […]
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By Nora Hamerman
“Riches, then, which benefit also our neighbors, are not to be thrown away. For they are possessions, inasmuch as they are possessed, and goods, inasmuch as they are useful and provided by God for the use of men.” So wrote the second-century Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria (not a saint, but widely regarded as a […]
Parishes
By Stacy Rausch
Epiphany of Our Lord celebrates its 43rd annual Slavic-American Festival with polka lessons, folk art sale and traditional food.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and members of the international Council of Cardinals advising him on church governance once again discussed ways to improve the process of identifying the best priests to become bishops. “The cardinals reflected broadly on the spiritual and pastoral profile necessary for a bishop today,” said Greg Burke, director of the […]
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The Benedictine Sisters of Virginia in Bristow welcome a new postulant as a graduate of Christendom College in Front Royal takes her solemn vows with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Florence in Italy. The Benedictine Sisters accepted Kay Fitzgerald of Atlanta, as a postulant Labor Day weekend. Following a 1,500-year-old tradition, Fitzgerald knocked […]
National
By Dianne Towalski
ALBANY, Minn. — Agnes Imdieke awakened the morning of Sept. 3 in her apartment on the outskirts of Albany and got ready for the day. As she did every day, she lit a candle and said a prayer for the safe return of Jacob Wetterling. It’s a ritual she set aside time for each morning […]
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How do you insult death? According to Mexican wisdom, by giving in to melancholy. While this time of year conjures the somber and scary in Americans’ imaginations, Mexicans picture the happy and bright. That’s because el Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is upon us. El Día de los Muertos, the Mexican […]
Arts
By Zoey Maraist
Every part of a well-designed church is deliberately planned to bring glory to God — the shape, the artwork, the liturgical furnishings and everything in between. This series aims to explain the art and architecture of diocesan churches, so the faithful can better appreciate the beauty around them. During the medieval period, stained glass windows […]
