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By Cindy Wooden
ROME – A Corpus Christi procession should honor Christ’s gift of Himself in the Eucharist, but also should be a pledge to share bread and faith with the people of the cities and towns where the processions take place, Pope Francis said. Just as the “breaking of the bread” became the icon of the early […]
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Read the story about the New transitional deacons featured in the Arlington Catholic Herald.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 […]
‘Blessed are those who mourn’