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Joe Sebastian has been named the new head football coach at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, according to an announcement by the school. Sebastian has taught at PVI for 14 years and was the head coach on the junior varsity and freshman level the past two seasons. He has coached high school and […]
National
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome Pope Francis to the White House Sept. 23. “During the visit, the president and the pope will continue the dialogue, which they began during the president’s visit to the Vatican in March 2014, on their shared values and commitments on a wide range […]
Movies
Teenagers are still on the run – when they’re not too busy killing one other – in this follow-up to the 2014 kick-off of the futuristic franchise. Based on the second book of the trilogy by Veronica Roth, director Robert Schwentke’s thriller – set, like its predecessor, in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago – finds […]
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The community garden outside the Sister Maureen Joyce Center was once an abandoned lot in a low-income neighborhood in Albany, N.Y. Today, it provides fresh fruits and vegetables to the center’s soup kitchen, where nearly 130 people gather three times a week for a lunch made from scratch by volunteers like Lois Keefrider. Keefrider praises […]
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By Katie Scott
In his Arlington residence, where he lives with seven other people, James Schreiner has found not only balance and the fruits of living in community, but also the opportunity to fulfill "a calling to be not so much a servant but a brother," he said.
Arts
By Regina Lordan
As members of the research staff at the Vatican Observatory, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno and Jesuit Father Paul Mueller are asked a lot of questions related to science and faith. But a select number are asked repeatedly: What was the star of Bethlehem; how did the universe begin and how will it end; what really […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Palm Sunday is on the horizon, and with it come hundreds of fresh palm fronds just waiting to be transformed into crosses and roses. You can brush up on your palm-weaving skills by viewing the video below. When you are done you can create a variety of arrangements to decorate your house or place them […]
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By Katie Scott
Yvonne Selke and her daughter, Emily, parishioners of Sacred Heart Church in Manassas, were two of the three Americans killed in the Airbus jet that crashed March 24 in the French Alps. The third American was Robert Oliver Calvo, 37, a married father of two who lived in Spain. Raymond Selke of Nokesville confirmed his […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
When religion and secularism butt heads on public policy – a regular occurrence these days – religion typically is obliged to fight with one hand tied behind it. Unfair, you say? Certainly it is, but that’s how the game is played now. Consider the escalating argument over euthanasia and its first cousin, assisted suicide. For […]
Movies
Plodding thriller about a paid assassin-turned-aid-worker (Sean Penn, who also co-wrote the script) whose criminal past comes back to haunt him when a price is put on his head as the long-delayed result of his murder of an African cabinet minister. As he evades his would-be killers, he turns to his former boss (Mark Rylance) […]
