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The 22nd annual Youth Apostles Institute Pro-life Essay Contest with the theme, “Message to an Expectant Mother,” has selected its winners. Participants were tasked with writing a message to an expectant mother, and their entries demonstrated an appreciation for the sanctity of unborn human life as well as the necessity for sensitivity toward women in […]
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When: Tuesday, June 7 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington Baccalaureate Mass: June 6 at St. Bernadette Church, 7600 Old Keene Mill Road, Springfield, at 7 p.m. Total Graduates: 202 Graduates Include: Cameron Jared Abell, Ryan Christopher Allard, Isabel Kemp Anderson, Mary Kay […]
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By Russell Shaw
It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in her autobiography The Long Loneliness, she described it like this: “The smell from the tenements, coming up from basements and […]
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Franciscan Father Kevin J. Downey, a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Name Province, has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation of an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a male minor in 1990 in another state. The investigation is in its early phases and no final determination has been made regarding the […]
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By Christina Capecchi
Staci Perry bakes like she lives. She doesn’t measure. She works with what’s already in the fridge. And she scrapes every last bit out of the bowl. “I don’t do anything fancy,” she says, sitting in the kitchen of her century-old farmhouse two miles north of Verdi, a tiny, windswept town by the Minnesota-South Dakota […]
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When: Thursday, June 2 at noon Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington. Baccalaureate Mass: May 22 at Bishop O’Connell High School, 6600 Little Falls Rd., Arlington, at 9 a.m. Total graduates: 261 Graduation speaker: diocesan superintendant Sister Bernadette McManigal, B.V.M. Graduates include: Ako Adams, Brian Joseph […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Fifteen graduating seniors from four Arlington diocesan high schools will attend military academies this fall. Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington has three students who will attend military academies. Gabriella Baltimore will attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.; Briana Broccoli will attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Great Neck, N.Y.; and Michael […]
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By Katie Bahr
Married since 2003 and the parents of five children, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, and his wife, Jeannie, are devout Catholics and writing partners. They teamed up for their commencement address, bouncing off each other with wise and witty advice. To begin, Jeannie recounted their reaction when they were first asked to speak at Catholic University’s […]
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By Special To The Herald
Christendom College celebrated commencement weekend May 13-15, awarding 72 Bachelor of Arts degrees and one Associate of Arts degree, and honoring renowned historian James Hitchcock and Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Cardinal O’Brien celebrated the baccalaureate Mass May 13 and received an honorary doctorate during […]
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