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By Dave Borowski
The moveable feast of Corpus Christi, officially known as the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, was instituted by Pope Urban IV in 1264 and is a public acknowledgement of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The official day of the feast is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, most […]
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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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Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax plans to launch a girls field hockey team beginning fall 2016 in anticipation of more field space as the school plans its move to Loudoun County. For the short term, the new team will be a one-level club group and will compete against Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and […]
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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 […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori will lay his hands on the heads of two men during the ordination ceremony at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington June 4 at 11 a.m. The archbishop, who is substituting for Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde, will ordain Jordan Willard and Stephen Vaccaro to the diaconate. Their […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
There is a band in town waking up the Christian rock scene in Northern Virginia, and they call themselves The Restless. The group of young adults started the band with the mission to be a resource to the diocese while also reaching out to the broader community through music.br />
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By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Deacons are called to be servants who set aside their own self-serving plans and are generous with their lives, Pope Francis said. A servant “is not a slave to his own agenda,” but rather always is prepared for the unexpected and responds, even if that means ignoring the parish schedule, the pope […]
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By Cindy Wooden
ROME – Thousands of permanent deacons and their wives began their Year of Mercy celebration by cutting straight to the heart of what it means to be a deacon, how the ministry impacts their families and the challenge of explaining their vocation to others, including bishops and priests. The pilgrims divided into language groups and […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – When then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger met the press in 2000 for the formal release of the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, he said he knew many people would be disappointed. Almost 16 years later, at the beginning of a yearlong preparation for the 100th anniversary of the apparition of our Lady of Fatima […]
