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By Ashleigh Buyers
More than 100 fresh “recruits” gathered inside St. Benedict Hall in Arlington Feb. 2 for the second session of Marriage Boot Camp, a new faith formation series sponsored by St. Charles Borromeo Church. Unlike what the title suggests, there is no drill sergeant demanding endless push-ups from young couples on their way to the altar. […]
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By Dave Borowski
In 2013, Pope Francis proclaimed that a Year of Consecrated Life be observed from Nov. 30, 2014, to Feb. 2, 2016. In a letter to those living a consecrated life, the pope said that there were three aims for the year: to look to the past with gratitude, to live in the present with passion […]
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By Dave Borowski
What better way to kick off a year of parish pride then with a Mass? An unusually warm and sunny mid-winter day greeted St. Joseph parishioners as Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated the centennial opening Mass Feb. 8 at St. Joseph Church in Alexandria. Josephite Father Donald M. Fest and Deacons Albert A. Anderson […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Dave Druitt, a parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Burke, is a storyteller, and one of his yarns to spin is that of his conversion. “All I could focus on was that I was going to be dead by the end of the year,” said Druitt, who was raised Episcopalian. After graduating from Episcopal […]
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By Russell Shaw
I try to take American politics seriously, I really do. Serious issues are at stake, after all. But sometimes, entirely too often in fact, the realities of American political discourse make taking it seriously awfully hard. Considering the seriousness of what’s at stake, this may be what hearing Beethoven’s Ninth performed on the harmonica would […]
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By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – Somewhere along the line weddings became very expensive celebrations. Some people have long dreamt about the exotic weddings they want or else they feel pressured to go this route by friends and family. But such plans ring up a huge tab that might need some reconsideration. Although the U.S. Catholic bishops have not […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Bishops who do not comply with the child protection norms adopted by their bishops’ conferences and approved by the Vatican must face real consequences, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. The commission, he said, “is very, very concerned about this whole […]
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By Katie Scott
Highlighting the life, suffering and enduring hope of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley called for reflection and action to combat modern-day slavery during his homily on the first International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking Feb. 8. We must “do everything in our power through the […]
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Fr. Robert J. Rippy, rector of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, makes the sign of the cross with ashes on the forehead of a parishioner during last year’s Ash Wednesday Mass at the cathedral. Ash Wednesday is Feb. 18 this year.
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Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will deliver the annual Cardinal John Dearden Lecture on “Gaudium et Spes after 50 Years: An Asian Reception,” March 2 at 4:30 p.m., at the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center at the Catholic University in Washington. An alumnus of Catholic U., Cardinal Tagle earned his licentiate in sacred theology in […]
