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By Christine Stoddard
Jochebed, daughter of Levi, was living under Egyptian oppression when the Pharaoh ordered that the Israelites’ baby boys be drowned in the Nile. Though she safely hid her son for three months, the day came when she could hide him no longer. And so she made the heart-wrenching choice memorialized in the Book of Exodus. […]
Movies
Lacking close friends, a likable nebbish (Josh Gad) betrothed to a shallow beauty (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) engages the services of a best-man-for-hire (Kevin Hart) and a hastily assembled – and thoroughly motley – crew of fake groomsmen. Though it sketchily traces the burgeoning affinity between the husband-to-be and his stand-in bosom buddy, director and co-writer Jeremy […]
Schools
By Madeleine Dubelko
On a chilly Saturday morning, students from Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries gave up a day of rest to give back to their communities. Participants in the annual service day Jan. 17 responded to calls for help from St. Francis House in Dumfries, House of Mercy in Manassas, Mary’s Shelter […]
Columns
By George Weigel
In the wake of the horrific jihadist attack on the Paris-based journal Charlie Hebdo, the trope “satirical magazine” was regularly deployed to explain Charlie’s character and content. But that’s not quite right. And what’s wrong about it – when linked to the sentiment expressed on placards reading “We are all Charlie Hebdo” – suggests just […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON — Father Richard P. McBrien, a retired professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and who was chair of the university’s theology department for 11 years, died Jan. 25 at age 78 in his native Connecticut. A Jan. 25 announcement by the university said Father McBrien had died after a long illness, […]
Local
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated Mass Jan. 22 at the Patriot Center in Fairfax as part of the Life Is Very Good rally prior to the annual March for Life. Thousands of pro-life students, clergy and religious gathered with the bishop before traveling to Washington for the march.
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The Bishop O’Connell High School community in Arlington is mourning the loss of Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Maureen Christopher Dusterhoff, who died Jan. 21 at Camilla Hall in Immaculata, Pa. Sister Mo, as she was known to students and colleagues, taught, among other things, AP Government and Principles of Economics for 30 years at […]
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By Arland Nichols
Hundreds of thousands will march Jan. 22 for human life and in solidarity with the women, children and men impacted by abortion. Forty two years have passed since Roe and Doe made abortion the law of the land and after these many years, the disregard for human life remains pronounced and arguments for abortion seem […]
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Teams from across the Arlington Diocese gathered at St. Louis School in Alexandria Jan. 19 for the 9th annual Dodgeball Tournament. The event benefitted the youth ministry program at nearby Good Shepherd Church.
Schools
By Christine Stoddard
Step into Sarah Conrad’s pre-kindergarten classroom at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington and you’ll see the usual objects: tiny furniture, storybooks, brightly colored posters and educational toys. But you’ll also notice that laminated labels abound. The teacher’s desk, the little library, the math games and a host of other things throughout the space […]
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