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By Christine Stoddard
Shuttled from across the state, participants in Catholic Advocacy Day scrambled to the fourth floor of the SunTrust Center in Richmond the morning of Jan. 29, two weeks after the Virginia General Assembly convened for the 2015 session. Organized by the Virginia Catholic Conference – a public policy advocacy group formed by Arlington Bishop Paul […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Is the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, including indissolubility, an ideal or a norm? Although the question may sound abstract, even esoteric, it has urgent, immediate practical implications. To say one admires the church’s teaching as an ideal is, intentionally or not, to undermine that teaching in the act of admiring it. Here is the […]
Arts
By Ann M. Augherton
Sherlock Holmes is on the case in Arena Stage’s production of “Baskerville” as six actors bring the 40 characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles to life in the foggy English countryside. Playwright Ken Ludwig puts his personal twist on the story with Amanda Dehnert’s direction resulting in a raucous, impeccably […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
There has been a palpable shift in my household in the last year. Three boys have gone off into the world, leaving a girl as the eldest at home. Then there are two more boys, then three more girls. We have a mostly girl house now. And yet, I find myself thinking even more about […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Irena Sendler was 29 years old when Nazi tanks slithered into Warsaw, casting a shadow of fear over the town and slicing it apart with a walled-off ghetto for the Jewish residents. There was no way she could sit back and watch. The social worker with the shy eyes and round baby face stood 4’11” […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – A pivotal moment in the modern history of the Catholic Church came to life on screen with a new documentary about the Second Vatican Council. With archival footage and exclusive interviews with prelates who attended the council sessions between its opening in 1962 and closing in 1965, the film pieces together firsthand […]
Local
Sophomore Aaron Thompson scored 18 points and junior VJ King had 15 to lead Paul VI Catholic High School of Fairfax to a 64-62 victory over rival Bishop O’Connell High School of Arlington. The game, which was delayed twice due to inclement weather, was played Jan. 29 in Fairfax. Junior Ako Adams led the Knights […]
Columns
By John Garvey
Islamic extremists touched a particularly sensitive nerve in the West this month with the murders of cartoonists from the satirical French weekly, Charlie Hebdo. The killings provoked a rally in Paris that French officials called the largest ever. President Francois Hollande was joined by the heads of European states, and by both the Israeli prime […]
Schools
By Christine Stoddard
Cuando se entra al aula preescolar de la escuela de la Catedral de Santo Tomás More en Arlington, se ven las cosas habituales: muebles diminutos, libros de cuentos, carteles de colores vivos y juguetes educativos. Pero también se ven unas etiquetas laminadas con la letra perfecta de la maestra Sarah Conrad que identifican el pupitre […]
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