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When: Sunday, June 5 at 2:30 p.m. Where: Eagle Bank Arena (formerly the George Mason Patriot Center), 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax Baccalaureate Mass: June 3 at St. Timothy Catholic Church, 13807 Poplar Tree Road, Chantilly, at 7:30 p.m. Total Graduates: 241 Graduation Speaker: Paul VI teachers and staff. Graduates include: Devon Paul Adams, Alexander Christian […]
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When: Friday, June 3 at 10 a.m. Where: Hylton Memorial Chapel, 14640 Potomac Mills Road, Woodbridge Baccalaureate Mass: June 2 at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School, 17700 Dominican Dr., Dumfries at 7 p.m. Total graduates: 161 Graduation speaker: Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde Graduates include: William Cresencio Adams, Sarah Elizabeth Arata, Ashley […]
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When: Monday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. Where: All Saints Church, 9300 Stonewall Road, Manassas Baccalaureate Mass: preceding graduation Total Graduates: 68 Graduation Speaker: Marcus Daly Graduates include: William Arnold, Madeleine Atkinson, Matthew Bartolozzi, Caelan Burgess, Stephen Byers, Haley Cackett, Mary Camarca, Jillian Ceol, Dominic Ciaverella, Samuel Cobb, Theresa Cook, Tim Costello, Mary Cuccinelli, Johanna […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
According to the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools, the following people will retire at the end of this school year (diocesan years of service are indicated): Bishop Ireton High School, Alexandria: Sr. Elizabeth Rossetti (42 years); Robert Storch (23 years); Sr. Anne Tardiff (50 years) Bishop O’Connell High School, Arlington: James Hayes (41 years); Valarie […]
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By Dave Borowski
There are two well-known players in standardized college entrance testing – the SATs and the ACTs. The SATs have been keeping high school seniors on pins and needles since 1926, the ACTs since 1956. Since December, a new college testing service, Classic Learning Initiatives, claims to be a more accurate and rigorous measure of college […]
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By Dave Borowski
Diego Garcia is a 17-year-old senior at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington and a parishioner of St. Joseph Church in Herndon. At an age when most students would be happy with the traditional family vacation at the beach, Garcia has traveled to 52 different countries. And it’s not the usual destinations; his favorite place […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Katie Mitchell attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to play golf, but wound up finding her Catholic faith. With chapels in every building and friends who shared the same values, sacraments and spiritual encouragement were never more than a dorm room away. Finding that same environment after college was a little more challenging. […]
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By Katie Scott
Mary Byczek walks in between rows of desks at St. Leo the Great School in Fairfax, her voice calm and deliberate and her hands gesturing. She’s giving a brief refresher on pronouns, sprinkling it with anecdotes and examples, while her fifth-graders highlight words on worksheets. When Byczek, 62, stops to ask a question, several arms […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Nobody wanted to take the packet, so Ryan Orr reluctantly grabbed it. Little did he know that picking up the “How to form a pro-life club” booklet at youth group would lead him to create St. Gianna’s Life Defenders at Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville and ignite his passion for the pro-life movement. “I thought […]
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This summer, John Nothaft, a parishioner of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, will realize his dream to perform cathedral recitals on some of the world’s finest instruments in England. Nothaft graduated from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in May with a degree in organ performance. Through Indiana’s Hutton Honors […]
