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By Tom Tracy
ORLANDO, Fla. – The head of Catholic Relief Services made the case for Catholic education and Christian beliefs and values by retracing her own roots as a student of American missionaries in Asia through her higher education experiences as an international student in the U.S. Speaking April 7 to some 5,000 Catholic educators in Orlando […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
It’s a good thing Easter is a season, because Lent was loath to let go. The week before Easter, my brother-in-law died. Before the suitcase was unpacked after his funeral, a very dear friend died in the early morning of Holy Thursday. And Good Friday was cold and dark and a little scarier than usual […]
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By Mike Flach
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde blessed and sealed the Holy Door at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington during the April 12 liturgy for Divine Mercy Sunday. Bishop Loverde, who was the celebrant and homilist at the noon Mass, affixed a gold cross and the coat of arms of […]
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By Katie Scott
The frigid winter morning you dash to your SUV only to find the battery is dead; or the afternoon you’re running late for your child’s swim practice and see smoke billowing from your sedan’s hood – these are the rare moments when many of us stop taking our cars for granted. For most Northern Virginians, […]
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CINCINNATI – Lauren Hill, a Mount St. Joseph University freshman who gained international attention when she pursued her dream of playing college basketball even as her inoperable brain cancer advanced, died overnight April 10. She was 19. She suffered from a fatal brain cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG. “God has a […]
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By Seth Gonzales
DALLAS – Even after becoming the toast of the sports world, golfer Jordan Spieth, a 21-year-old Dallas Jesuit graduate, remained humble and down-to-earth as he worked the crowds at Augusta, handled the media, and bantered with morning and late night talk show hosts after his historic win. That’s no surprise to those who know the […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Whether you know the Addams family from the ’90s movies, the ’60s television show or the long-running New Yorker cartoons, you know that macabre is their shtick. Now imagine that dark humor on stage. Katherine Miller, theater teacher at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, can and will. This year, Paul VI’s spring production […]
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By Katie Scott
When Maddie Rosso was about 6 years old, her mom asked what she wanted for Christmas. Rosso’s answer: to send school supplies to poor children in Africa. “She’s always thought of others,” said Rosso’s mother, Alyson. “She is the one who reaches out to the kid at the lunch table who doesn’t have a friend. […]
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By Dave Borowski
In a tradition as old as Christianity and performed thousands of times around the world on Holy Thursday, Father Jerry J. Pokorsky, pastor of St. Michael Church in Annandale, washed the feet of 12 altar servers in a ceremony April 2. The ceremony recreated Jesus washing the feet of his 12 Apostles.
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