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By Soren Johnson
Garrison Keillor once described a type of sermon that is like watching paint dry on a barn. Several years ago while observing paint dry in a now-forgotten parish in a far-off diocese (to be clear, Father Mosimann, this was another diocese), I glanced around at my fellow laymen and saw that most of them had […]
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60 years Msgr. Frank E. Mahler, who resides at the St. Rose of Lima Priests Retirement Villa in Annandale, was ordained May 3, 1956. Full story here. 45 years Father Richard J. Ley and Father Franklyn M. McAfee were ordained May 15, 1971; Father John T. B. Trong was ordained May 22, 1971; Father William […]
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By Katie Scott
Sixty years ago, Msgr. Frank E. Mahler celebrated his first Mass amid chairs, lamps and a couch. The modest, homey setting was a fitting start to a priesthood marked by service to the family, the elderly and the sick. Ordained May 3, 1956, in New York City by Cardinal Francis Spellman for the Richmond Diocese, […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Patrick Murray had never seen anything like St. John Cantius Church in Chicago. The Baroque-style cathedral – with its towering columns, circular stained glass windows and pale blue ceiling murals – was stunningly beautiful. He felt the church’s art and architecture gave a sense of the 2,000 years of tradition contained within Catholicism. The space […]
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By Katie Scott
“I was an adopted child, but I wish my birth mom had been in a place as loving as this,” said Craig Hartman, looking around a room furnished with everything from diapers and swaddling blankets to a bedside Bible and rocking chair. “My birth mother went to a cold place where girls were shamed into […]
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80 years Benedictine Sister Anita Sherwood was born Nov. 3, 1918, in Lewinsville, Va., to Daniel and Honore Sherwood. She earned her bachelor’s from Mount St. Agnes College in Baltimore and Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh. She earned master’s degrees in theology and in English through the University of Notre Dame and the University of […]
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By Katie Scott
My son was born late last May, and this will be my first Mother’s Day with him outside the womb. Since my husband and I met later in life and I had health issues in my 20s, I don’t take motherhood for granted. I’m blessed to be showered with love and hugs every day, but […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia Mary Veronica Keller will become principal of Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries in July, according to an announcement from the diocese May 4. “It brings me great joy to make this appointment,” said Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde. “Sister Mary Veronica will build on the […]
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By Mike Flach
Seventy new master catechists from nine parishes received their certification April 29 at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton. Father Paul F. deLadurantaye, secretary for religious education and sacred liturgy, was the celebrant and homilist at the ceremony. The Master Catechist Training Program is sponsored by the Office of Catechetics and is supported by […]
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By Dave Borowski
More than 100 members of Arlington Catholic Charities’ Parish Liaison Network (PLN) recently gathered at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna for a daylong meeting on “Strengthening Senior Services in our Parishes.” Art Bennett, CEO and president of Catholic Charities, opened the session with a prayer. The morning’s topic was difficult. Bereavement over […]
