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Ireton girls lacrosse team hopes to hold on to championship trophy

By Jake Murray
The Bishop Ireton girls’ lacrosse program is gearing up for yet another highly anticipated season following their VISAA and WCAC championship wins in 2014. A new year brings new opportunities and another chance to fill the trophy cases at Ireton. After a magical run during the playoffs last May, the Cardinals have a target on […]
Columns

Keeping Catholic schools Catholic

By George Weigel
There seems to be some dispute as to whether the original Trotskyite, Leon Trotsky, ever said, “You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you.” One quotation-archaeologist, digging deeply, claims to have found the origins of Trotsky’s alleged bon mot in the treatise, “Petty-Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party.” […]
Columns

‘For God so loved the world’

There is a dual dynamic that marks our relationship with God. On the one hand, our broken and bruised human nature finds it too easy to turn away from God, slide into ugly self-centeredness and become proud and stubborn in our sin and selfishness. Yet, on the other hand, God remains remarkably patient with us. […]
Local

Alexandria hosts St. Patrick’s Day Parade

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Alexandria brought plenty of spectators and marchers out to enjoy the festivities this year. The U.S. Coast Guard silent drill team performed a “close shave” maneuver, animal lovers took part in the “Fun Dog Show,” and bagpipers played in the parade. All photos by Gerald Martineau for the Catholic […]
Local

Cardinal Tagle shares a message of conversion, renewal

By Dave Borowski
Hundreds of parishioners filled St. Ann Church in Arlington March 3 to hear Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, speak on good, evil, renewal and conversion. In the spirit of the new evangelization, Cardinal Tagle’s homily was a treatise on conversion and renewal during the season of Lent. “No one can say that we […]
Local

Local Muslims, Catholics package meals

By Ann M. Augherton
“Just as it is a part of your faith, it’s a part of our faith to make sure we care for our neighbors,” said Ahsen Abbasi, a local Muslim. “If we have a full stomach when we go to sleep at night, we can ensure others have a full stomach when they go to bed.” […]
Local

Men urged to read the Bible, make time for prayer

By Dave Borowski
The annual Men’s Conference, sponsored by the diocesan Office for Family Life, was scheduled to begin March 7 at 9 a.m. at Foxchase Manor in Manassas. If you got there 45 minutes before it started, you would have found a full parking lot with the nearest place to park more than a mile away. A […]
Art

One month left in ‘Picturing Mary’ exhibition

By Christine Stoddard
“Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea,” a world-class exposition of Marian masterpieces from Renaissance and Baroque Europe at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, closes April 12. Nearly 70 paintings, sculptures and textiles are on loan from the Vatican Museums, Musée du Louvre, Palazzo Pitti and other European and American institutions. The […]
Local

Richmond’s Catholic travel destinations

By Christine Stoddard
Richmond may seem like a natural destination for Civil War afficionados, but did you know it also lays claim to a small treasure trove of Catholic attractions? The first stop for any Catholic out-of-towner is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, the seat of the Diocese of Richmond. Located in the middle of Virginia Commonwealth […]
Local

Soup Supper for Lent

By Ann M. Augherton
The regulars at St. Ann Parish’s soup supper have been coming for so long no one can recall how many years it’s been. A table of six longtime parishioners got their heads together to try and figure it out. Who was in school there when? Whose friend made what soup that year? How many years […]

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