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Bishop O’Connell High School defeated Bishop Ireton High School 51-35. The game was played Dec. 13 in Alexandria.
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Holiday horror reigns as one suburban family’s strident quarreling not only quashes the true spirit of Christmas, but unleashes Santa’s evil counterpart, a monster bent on annihilating the naughty. The titular fiend’s rampage is triggered when an innocent lad (Emjay Anthony), driven to despair by the selfishness of his dysfunctional clan (led by Adam Scott […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Mary Susan Burnett-Miller was reading a laundromat magazine while on vacation when she first learned about organizations like Laundry Love. Years prior in Ventura, Calif., a group of people asked a homeless man named T-Bone how they could serve him. “If I had clean clothes I think people would treat me like a human being,” […]
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By Sarah Rushforth
Students of Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria welcomed author John Bul Dau last month to speak on his book, God Grew Tired of Us. The work is an autobiography recounting Dau’s trek across Ethiopia and Kenya with a band of other children following the onset of Sudan’s civil war in 1987. Dau’s visit was […]
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By Katie Scott
Nearly record-setting high temperatures Dec. 12 made for a sunshine-cloaked Nativity scene outside St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. At one of the Christmas Eve vigil Masses, Fr. Gerald Weymes, pastor, will place the missing centerpiece – the Infant Jesus – onto the white blanket.
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By Dave Borowski
In April, Pope Francis declared that a Jubilee Year of Mercy be observed from the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, to the solemnity of Christ the King, Nov. 20, 2016. The pope opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome Dec. 8, and Dec. 13 he opened the Holy Door of […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
After months of hard work, Anson Brassell completed his Eagle Scout project. At the suggestion of his pastor, Father John P. Mosimann, Brassell, a St. John the Apostle parishioner and high school senior, decided to build a grotto outside the historic St. John Chapel in downtown Leesburg. Following the example of a parishioner who constructed […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
It’s been a good reading year, and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list: God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at the 2015 Synod and with good reason, for this interview-style autobiography of a life of faith is […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
ROME – If a pilgrim walking to Rome for a Holy Year fell mortally ill far from home or a poor tenant farmer died working in a field or an unidentifiable victim of murder was found, a group of courageous Christians buried these anonymous or forgotten dead with dignity. Founded in 1538, the Archconfraternity of […]
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By Katie Scott
If you flipped on the television around this time last year, you might have caught a glimpse of Stacey Jackson alongside religious sisters in an episode of “The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns,” a Lifetime reality series following five women as they discerned the religious life. Fast-forward a year later and Jackson again is surrounded by religious […]
