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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 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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The real-life events that helped inspire Herman Melville’s classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick become the basis for a polished and exciting adventure directed by Ron Howard. As the novelist (Ben Whishaw) interviews the last survivor (Brendan Gleeson) of an ill-fated 1820 whaling expedition out of Nantucket, Massachusetts, the old salt (played in youth by Tom Holland) […]
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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 Katie Scott
The comfort of solidarity amid pain and the peace of encountering Christ’s grace were the focus of the first Arlington diocesan Mass for families suffering from infertility, infant loss and miscarriage Dec. 12 at St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. “We remember in our pain that Jesus walks every day of our lives with us, in […]
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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 Mary Stachyra Lopez
A little more than 2,000 years ago a Middle Eastern family fled the violence that filled their hometown and threatened to claim the life of their infant son. The story of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt resonates with many Christians today as thousands of refugees from Iraq and Syria make a dangerous, often fatal, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
During Advent, students at Holy Cross Academy in Fredericksburg decided to tell the Christmas story visually through the school hallways. Each grade worked on one of the Christmas mysteries and created a panorama of the event. The displays spanned the whole Christmas story: Kindergartners started with the Annunciation; first-graders illustrated Mary’s visit to Elizabeth; second-graders […]
