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By Mike Flach
Liz Schiavone, president of the Arlington Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (ADCCW), recently wrote a letter to Pope Francis in which she praised Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde’s support of women and families during his 16 years as thw diocese’s shepherd. Schiavone read the letter Aug. 28 at the organization’s annual luncheon and presented Bishop […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Hospitals, prisons, battlegrounds – these are the dramatic life-or-death settings where you would expect to find chaplains guiding the wayward and administering last rites. But director Martin Doblmeier’s new documentary, “Chaplains,” shows that chaplains from various faith traditions also offer pastoral care in little-known locations: Tyson Foods processing plants, NASCAR race tracks, the U.S. Congress […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In an extraordinary gesture for the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has extended to priests worldwide the authority to absolve women for the sin of abortion and has decreed the full validity during the year of the sacrament of confession celebrated by priests of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X. “This […]
Schools
When students of Seton School in Manassas arrive for the first day of school, they will notice many changes. Fresh paint throughout the school brightens hallways and classrooms. New lockers, new bleachers and a completely refinished gym floor await the students. Work that continues on the new chapel. During the summer, the walls were prepared […]
National
By Catholic News Service
MCALLEN, Texas – At Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, members of the community, most of them volunteers at a respite center for immigrants at Sacred Heart parish hall, were invited to a special event by ABC News, but were not informed in advance of just how special that event would be. People started arriving at […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria will open its doors Aug. 31 with a new director of instruction at the helm. Denise Tobin comes from St. John Neumann Regional Academy High School in Williamsport, Pa., and is joined by eight new faculty members: Patricia Allis and Teresa Kelly in computer science; Caroline Duffy in religion; […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Drawing on the experience of the public exposition of the Shroud of Turin, Vatican officials are adopting a reservation system for pilgrims who want to cross the threshold of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica during the Year of Mercy. The free, online registration will not be activated until October, but […]
Schools
The fall high school sports season is underway. Herald photographers Ashleigh Buyers and Mary Witko recently traveled to Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington to see how the student athletes were preparing for the coming season.
Local
By Fr. Mike Mendi, S.d.b.
Salesian Brother Minh Duc Dang, a native of Vietnam whose family immigrated to the United States in 1992 and joined Church of the Nativity in Burke, pronounced a perpetual vow of obedience, poverty and chastity Aug. 9. He pledged himself, in the words of the formula of religious profession, “to devote all my strength to […]
Schools
Students and their parents gathered for an opening Mass Aug. 31 to kick off the school year at St. Andrew the Apostle School in Clifton. Schools in the Arlington Diocese opened for the year Aug. 31.
