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By Annaliese Ludvigson
The Bishop Ireton High School Model United Nations Team traveled to Blacksburg last month to participate in Virginia Tech’s second iteration of its Model United Nations conference.
Local
Seven seminarians are scheduled to be ordained deacons by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge April 26. They will be assigned to parishes this summer and will return to seminary for another year before the 2026 ordination to the priesthood.
Local
By Zoey Maraist
This year, some 290 people were baptized at Easter Vigil Masses around the diocese. For these new Catholics, faith is a family affair.
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
With Holy Week and Easter Sunday behind us, we wonder if, after Lent, we can continue some of our spiritual practices that we found so helpful. Yes!
Local
By Jim Hale
On day 83 of his 3,500-mile, 100-day run across America, Jonathan Kuplack looked fresh. Two hours after completing a 35-mile mountainous slog through wind and rain, the 36-year-old Kuplack stood before a crowd of 150 at Reitano Vineyards in Front Royal to talk about helping young men flourish through adventure, brotherhood, physical challenge, and prayer. […]
Local
By Jim Hale
Going on pilgrimage often conjures images of the Holy Land and other far-flung destinations. But when Brian Rademacher learned that eight churches in the Arlington diocese had been designated official Jubilee Holy Year sites, he was all in.
Local
The Associates of St. John Bosco is accepting applications from local Catholic Campus Ministries through May 1 for its Renewal through Innovative Student Evangelization, or RISE, Awards. Through the inaugural RISE Awards, the Springfield-based, Catholic non-profit will award up to $25,000 to as many as three Catholic Campus Ministries in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia that […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — In the first nine hours that Pope Francis’ body had lain in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, more than 19,000 people stood in line for hours in the sun to pray and pay homage to him. The doors of the basilica opened to the public a little after 11 a.m. local time […]
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By Diana Sims Snider
Tim Anderson spent decades as a “road warrior,” driving up Interstate 95 to his “beige cubicle” where he worked as a defense contractor.
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
ROME — In Pope Francis' last formal interview before he died, he shared the one lifelong regret he had never forgiven himself for: lying to avoid seeing an old family acquaintance because he was too busy.
