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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 […]
National
Charles E. Rice, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame Law School, an expert in constitutional law and jurisprudence, champion of the rights of the unborn, and leading Catholic scholar, died Feb. 25. He was 83. Rice served as an advisor to the board at Christendom College in Front Royal and was a recipient […]
Local
A grand reopening of St. Martin de Porres Senior Center, 4650 Taney Ave., Alexandria, will be held March 9 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. After an Oct. 15 fire temporarily suspended center programming, activities were held at nearby Queen of Apostles Church for about two months. The reopening will include a blessing by Oblate […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
Every Friday afternoon during Lent, the students and faculty of Angelus Academy in Springfield come together for Stations of the Cross. Gathering in the chapel with their own copies of “Way of the Cross,” the students read, kneel and recite together the responses while Principal Joseph Ammirati leads them through each station. “It is good […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A homeless man who faithfully attended Mass at a church inside Vatican City for decades was buried in a Vatican cemetery after it was discovered he had died and was left unidentified in a hospital morgue. Willy Herteleer was well-known by the Swiss Guards keeping watch at St. Anne’s Gate, by […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
“Abandona la noción que las chicas llegan a ser mujeres a la edad de 15 años”, dijo el Padre Alexander Díaz en un nuevo retiro para las jóvenes hispanas. “(Este cumpleaños) es la primera etapa, pero las chicas de 15 años son chicas”. El Padre Díaz, que sirve como vicario parroquial a la Iglesia de […]
Arts
By Nora Hamerman
The “Visitation” by Piero di Cosimo, painted around 1490, is a beloved treasure of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Depicting the meeting between the pregnant Virgin Mary with her aged cousin Elizabeth, who was expecting St. John the Baptist, the colorful panel evokes a mystery play in which we may imagine local laypeople […]
Arts
James Bond gets younger, hipper competition via this suave but excessively violent adaptation of Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ 2012 comic book series “The Secret Service.” A young hooligan (Taron Egerton) is invited by a spy (Colin Firth) to turn his life around by joining a top-secret independent intelligence agency. The lad’s recruitment coincides with […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
The Rite of Election is celebrated the first week in Lent around the world and is considered one of the most significant evangelical events in any diocese. It’s a ceremony of the election of catechumens and a call to continuing conversion of candidates preparing for reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. Catechumens […]
