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The Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, except where noted differently. Pastors Reverend Alexander R. Drummond – from Pastor of the Church of Saint Catherine of Siena in Great Falls to Pastor of the Church of Saint Michael in Annandale. Reverend Kevin […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees are urging Congress to pass the Conscience Protection Act of 2016 as an “immediate federal remedy” for government “coercion on abortion.” “Disturbing new actions to force health care providers to participate in the destruction of human life cry out for an immediate federal remedy,” said Cardinal […]
Columns
By James Higgins
In brief, don’t go see the new Tarzan movie. Captain Rom, the chief villain of the story, is depicted as a murdering, psychopathic Catholic. Rom goes about with a rosary wrapped about his wrist that he uses as a weapon. In one scene he even tries to strangle Tarzan with his rosary. In another scene, Margot […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
When my wife and I first moved to Northern Virginia, I introduced myself to a neighbor and learned that he was one of those rare native Virginians. Smiling at my surprise, he informed me that I was a “come here” and he was a “from here.” “How long before you’ll call me a ‘from […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
In the dead of winter every year thousands of pro-lifers throng the streets of downtown Washington making a public statement on behalf of life. Converging on the Mall for speeches in the shadow of the Washington Monument and the White House, they march up one of the capital city’s broad avenues to the marble palace […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
When my wife and I first moved to Northern Virginia, I introduced myself to a neighbor and learned that he was one of those rare native Virginians. Smiling at my surprise, he informed me that I was a “come here” and he was a “from here.” “How long before you’ll call me a ‘from here’?” […]
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By Ana Franco-guzman
WASHINGTON – The path for a group of young adult pro-lifers this summer is about 10,000 miles long. That’s the collective mileage Crossroads walkers will complete by Aug. 11 or 12, walking from the West Coast to the nation’s capital. The mission of Crossroads is to “witness to the dignity and sanctity of all human […]
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By Meredith Husar
Oblate Father William F. Davis, former diocesan superintendent of schools, died July 4 at the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in Childs, Md. He was 82. He was born Oct., 2, 1933, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of the late William F. and Agnes Allen Davis. He attended Niagara University, where his classmates inspired […]
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By Meredith Husar
Mila Tecala, social worker, grief counselor and longtime diocesan volunteer and employee, died June 24. She was a parishioner of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton. Tecala was born in the Phillipines, and earned her master of social work from the University of Michigan in 1966. She worked as a clinical social worker in […]
Movies
This third installment in the blood-soaked franchise that started with 2013’s “The Purge” sticks to the commercially tried-and-true formula of appealing to the very impulses it pretends to condemn, using the premise of a dystopian future America where one night a year is set aside for legally sanctioned murder and mayhem to do so. But […]
