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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Nine graduating seniors from four Arlington diocesan high schools will attend military academies this fall. Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington has four students who will attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.: Julia Bailey, Michael Galvan, Michael Hurley and Colin Snyder. Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries will send […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
I was 4 years old, and not Catholic, when Karol Wojtyla was elected the 264th bishop of Rome. By the time I was 27 – and as he entered his final four years – the Lord would call me to the church. St. John Paul II was central to this pilgrimage of faith. So you […]
Schools
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria won the girls’ independent state lacrosse title, while Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington won the softball title. The Cardinals defeated St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes from Alexandria 12-10. The Knights defeated Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax 5-2. Both games were played May 15. Ireton’s Kayla Duperrouzel dominated the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Declaring four 19th-century women religious saints, Pope Francis said they are models for all Christians of how faith, nourished in prayer, is expressed concretely in acts of charity and the promotion of unity. The new saints, proclaimed during a Mass May 17 in St. Peter’s Square, included two Palestinians – Sts. Marie-Alphonsine, […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Reaction was mixed to the May 15 jury sentencing of death for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaev had been convicted April 8 of all 30 counts lodged against him in the bombing, which killed three people and injured hundreds. Of those 30 counts, 17 carried the […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY – The closer two people are to each other, the more care is required in respecting the other’s freedom and feelings, Pope Francis said. Even Jesus knocks at the door of a person’s heart awaiting permission to enter, he said May 13 at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square. “Intimacy does […]
National
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA — The wailing of sirens called Father Tom Higgins from his parish rectory and Sisters Linda Lukiewski and Julie Sertsch from their convent to the scene of the Amtrak train derailment the evening of May 12. At about 9:30 p.m., the TV news reported the wreck of Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Train 188, which started […]
Arts
By Reviewed David Gibson
With the 2013 election of history’s first Jesuit pope, interest mounted exponentially in the now-worldwide Society of Jesus that St. Ignatius Loyola, with nine friends, founded in the 16th century. What Pope Francis’ election means for the Jesuits “remains to be seen,” writes Jesuit Father John W. O’Malley. But he points out in The Jesuits […]
National
By Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput May 13 urged prayers for all affected by the Amtrak train derailment in the city’s Port Richmond neighborhood that left at least seven people dead and injured more than 200 others. “I urge all people of goodwill to join me in extending prayerful condolences to those mourning the […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
It’s planting time. And growing time. And watering time. But, wait. First, it’s weeding time. Every year, I say I’m going to get after the weeds before it’s a big job, and every year, I don’t. The weeds around the trees are particularly overgrown this spring. They’re woody and tenacious and in need of some […]
