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The Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond will host the annual Edgar Allan Poe Young Writers’ Conference for high school students June 21-27. Founded in 2004 by Harry Lee Poe, author and cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, the conference offers daily writing workshops, as well as seminars led by writing professionals, novelists, editors, journalists, poets […]
Local
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., will host this year’s Quo Vadis and Fiat Days, sponsored by the diocesan Office of Vocations. Quo Vadis Days, a camp for rising-ninth through rising-12th grade boys, will be held July 26-30. Fiat Days, a camp for rising-ninth through rising-12th grade girls, will be held July 12-16. The […]
Schools
Christendom College in Front Royal will offer its three-week summer study abroad program, the St. Columcille Institute, in Donegal, Ireland, July 17 to Aug. 9. The program will host students from colleges in England, Ireland and across the United States. The curriculum of the institute aims to prepare students to answer the call of the […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Little white crosses scattered before a statue of the Holy Family make up a poignant memorial called the Cemetery for Aborted Children in South Korea. Home to about 15 million Christians, South Korea suffers the highest rate of abortion in the world. During his trip to the country last August, Pope Francis visited the site […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A top Vatican official received a ransom demand for the return of Renaissance-era documents by the artist Michelangelo. Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, “received a proposal to recover such documents at a certain price,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. “Naturally he refused as it concerned stolen […]
Columns
Children sled on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington during a snowstorm March 5.
Local
By Dave Borowski
“The one thing prisoners have a lot of,” said Bill Hall, diocesan prison ministry coordinator at Catholic Charities, “is time.” That time can be spent in many ways, some of them not good. Seniors at St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal are looking at books to keep prisoners at a local jail occupied. […]
Local
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde, chaplain of the Order of Malta, will celebrate a special Mass and administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick March 21 at St. Ambrose Church, 3901 Woodburn Road, Annandale, at 11 a.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit prayer petitions to Our Lady of Lourdes, which will be […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
Imagine being excited to tell your family and friends that you finally received a job offer after a long and arduous search. After their initial exclamations of joy, your loved ones would naturally ask the next question – where is this new job? For Steven Hemler, that “where” was the Middle East. Many of his […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
So, how’s the fasting going? You are not alone if you’re finding that it is a struggle to give up what you gave up. It’s not just a corporal struggle – at least, it’s not supposed to be. Our purpose in fasting is spiritual. In our daily lives, the world can overwhelm us. We are […]
