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By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: In light of the president’s recent remarks at the National 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/Inquisitions. Did the Christians try to take back their holy […]
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By Katie Scott
Vocational discernment can be a little like riding a school bus: Sometimes it’s bumpy, and there are multiple conversations (often loud ones) competing for your attention – but there’s a safe, steady driver behind the wheel. So it was fitting that across the diocese, around 1,200 students piled into yellow buses Feb. 11 to make […]
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By Cindy Wooden
ROME – Lent is a journey of purification and penance, a movement that should bring one tearfully back to the loving arms of the merciful Father, Pope Francis said at an Ash Wednesday Mass that began with a procession on Rome’s Aventine Hill. After walking from the Benedictine monastery of St. Anselm to the Dominican-run […]
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By Christine Stoddard
It’s not every morning that starts with literal fanfare at Holy Family School in Dale City. But Feb. 11, the sounds of the Revolutionary War transformed sleepyheads into enraptured boys and girls. An all-school presentation from the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps kicked off Colonial Day 2015. After the presentation, interpreters from […]
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Catholics around the Arlington Diocese observed the start of the Lenten season on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18.
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BALTIMORE – Soon after Sherry Weddell’s new book, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus, was published, she was approached by a man who told her that until he had read her book, he didn’t know it was possible to have a personal relationship with God. “This man was in ministry, forming […]
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By Mike Flach
More than 100 married couples gathered in prayer on St. Valentine’s Day with Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde to conclude a seven-day online retreat. The morning event included a final reflection by the bishop, benediction and Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. At least 700 couples registered for the first Busy […]
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By Christine Stoddard
“We love the body. It’s the temple for the Holy Spirit. The body is beautiful, and sex is beautiful when it’s an expression of authentic love,” said Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde Feb. 12 at the Mid-Atlantic Congress in Baltimore. The bishop was responding to the secular criticism that Catholics are ashamed of or disgusted […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
Lent begins this week – the spiritual gift of the church that is a season of paring away the things that cloud our souls in order to see more clearly how much God loves us. We enter into the season by raising our heads to the marking of ashes. Remember, man, that you are dust, […]
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