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By Elizabeth Foss
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” Those words were published in C. S. Lewis’ The Weight of Glory in 1949. If the world was starved for solitude and silence and privacy then – before the internet and ubiquitous computers we […]
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By Meredith Husar
A video version of the Arlington Diocese’s Journey to Emmaus curriculum is now being offered online to youth ministers across the nation. The Office of Youth Ministry hopes this resource will help more adults in the parish become witnesses to the faith through fostering intentional discussions with youths in a variety of settings. The Journey […]
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By Ann M. Augherton
An embarrassment of riches. As three of us from the Arlington Catholic Herald sat at the Catholic Press Association’s awards dinner last Friday night, that’s what it felt like as our name was announced over and over and over again. Some 34 times, we heard “Arlington Catholic Herald,” from honorable mentions, to second- and third-place […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
When it comes to World Youth Day, pilgrims never know what kind of weather they might get. In an effort to prepare the Arlington pilgrims for the demands that might await them in Kraków, Poland, the Office of Youth Ministry hosted a mini-pilgrimage May 21. Many World Youth Day first-timers expected the event to […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
The jubilant notes of “Lift High the Cross” rose to the top of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington June 4, marking the beginning of this year’s diaconate ordination Mass. Diaconate candidates Stephen Vaccaro and Jordan Willard waited in anticipation as they stood with their families in the church pews during the opening […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
The film adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ 2012 novel, Me Before You, tells the love story of cheerful caregiver Louisa Clark and disheartened, handsome quadriplegic Will Traynor. What could be a story about the redemptive power of love instead insidiously and heartbreakingly ends as Traynor commits assisted suicide with Clark by his side. The film begins […]
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By Beth Griffin
NEW YORK – It was hardly a typical New York City summer street fair. Yes, the requisite elements were there: colorful balloons arched across one end of a closed-off block, face-painters, kids’ games, food, bubbles, and live music. But the Sisters of Life block party outside their home on West 51st Street also featured a […]
Movies
Take an addictive phone app, contrive a plot to “explain” motivations, chuck in puns, a bit of potty humor and lengthy slapstick sequences, and you have the recipe for this inane 3-D animated adaptation. Co-directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly track the efforts of a trio of flightless friends (voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Shortly after her husband was drafted into the military, Stella Garcia helped pack up their little family and move to Northern Virginia. They arrived from Texas Sept. 18, 1950, a day she still remembers well. Over the next 66 years, Garcia and her family made their home in the soon-to-be created Arlington Diocese. Garcia is […]
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The heroine of this forced, mechanical follow-up to Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” (2010) is not Lewis Carroll’s curious 7-year-old girl but rather an intrepid sea captain with an entrepreneurial streak who refuses to bend to the will of a patriarchal society. Fueled by empathy and an appetite for risk, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) travels back […]
