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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 […]
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By Natalie J. Plumb
I felt as if I were panting. The next water station was far off. My feet throbbed as each step clunked on the pavement, inching closer to our destination: “home.” My thoughts were fuzzy and the line to get enough coffee to stifle my headache would’ve taken hours. Newfound friends and I walked in silence, almost […]
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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 […]
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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 Connor Bergeron
Catholic convert, Matt Fradd, breaks down the myths about pornography at Bishop O'Connell High School.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a brief outdoor ceremony, Pope Francis administered the sacrament of confirmation to 16-year-old Giuseppe Chiolo, who had come to the Vatican by ambulance from Florence. Chiolo, who is being treated in the oncology ward of a Florence hospital, had written to Pope Francis with a request to meet him. The teenager […]
Schools
By Special To The Catholic Herald
Christendom College in Front Royal publicly launched a comprehensive $40 million campaign Sept. 9, the most ambitious fundraising effort in its history. The initiative will help build the new Christ the King Chapel, double the endowment, and assist with the annual fund. The campaign, titled “A Call to Greatness,” was rolled out during a special […]
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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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 […]
