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Uplifting fact-based sports drama, set in 1980s California, about a high school teacher and coach (Kevin Costner) whose downward career spiral leads him to take a job in the impoverished fieldworkers’ community of the title. As he and his family – Maria Bello plays his wife and Morgan Saylor and Elsie Fisher his daughters – […]
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By Katie Scott
Last Friday night at Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church in Arlington, parishioners reflected on diversity and community as they sipped steamy vegetable soup and enjoyed Lenten-themed crafts – chatting and laughing while dabbing glue and snipping ribbon. The Stone Soup Suppers, offered each week during Lent, feature Mass, a simple meal and a presentation. […]
Arts
The Father Mychal Judge O.F.M. Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will sponsor “Dublin’s Irish Cabaret” March 14 at 8 p.m. at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish Center, 18825 Fuller Heights Rd., Triangle. The show will feature Irish tenor Andy Cooney and Irish comedian Noel V. Ginnity with the Darrah Car Dancers and […]
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Melvin Sánchez Ramírez makes his living as a coffee farmer in one of the poorest regions of Nicaragua. For him, his wife and his son, it has been a challenge, but they’ve managed to get by. Then came coffee leaf rust. The fungus killed so many of Ramírez’ plants, he had no coffee to sell. […]
Schools
By Renee Paquette
How often does someone get to two-step? How often does someone get to two-step with a parent? At Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, the answer was the annual Father-Daughter/Mother-Son Dance Feb. 7. The dance floor was busy with mothers and sons, as well as fathers and daughters two-stepping, swing dancing […]
Books
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
There is an old saying that life is a journey, not a destination. Where we end up is important, but getting there is the true test of character and imagination. That’s certainly the case in Be: The Journey of Rol, a new book by Ric Colegrove, a Warrenton resident and parishioner of Holy Trinity Church […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
The Daughters of St. Paul joined parishioners of St. Joseph Church in Alexandria to celebrate a special Mass marking the order’s 100th anniversary Feb. 25. The sisters sang during the Mass celebrated by Father Donald Fest, pastor of St. Joseph. A reception followed in the parish hall. “It was a great opportunity to celebrate with […]
Books
By Laura Ieraci
VATICAN CITY – A cookbook featuring favorite dishes of the three most-recent popes and their elite military corps will be available this summer in English. “Buon Appetito, Swiss Guard” was written by 24-year-old David Geisser, who had worked as a chef and published two popular cookbooks in his native Switzerland before joining the Swiss Guard […]
Columns
By Fr. William Saunders
Q: In light of the President’s recent remarks at the Prayer Breakfast referencing ISIS to the Crusades as if the beheadings, burnings, etc. throughout the ages had already happened in the “name of Jesus,” I would like to know a little history of the Crusades/Inquisition. – A reader in Woodstock A: Recall, the last issue […]
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