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By Elizabeth Foss
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” — L.M. Montgomery I love this Anne of Green Gables quote. It is nice to awaken to a new day, fresh without any mistakes yet in it. The celebration of the new year is a little like that, […]
National
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – While many tributes to former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo reference the impact of his 1984 keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, for many Catholics, it was a different speech the same year that defined his political legacy. Cuomo, who died Jan. 1 at age 82, served three terms as governor and […]
Local
Marymount University students teamed up during the holiday season to make 141 baby blankets for Hope in Northern Va., a crisis pregnancy center. Madelyn Kellen, a sophomore business major and resident assistant, organized the party for the second year in a row. The Ashburn native started the tradition last year with a dozen friends at […]
Schools
By Peter Lucas
Many Catholics today miss a beautiful gift. This gift, so great in grace, is missed not because of lack of commitment, nor lack of faith, but because many do not know of the abundant graces it provides. This gift, so beautiful, has been the source of many conversions, miracles, graces, and other goodness. This most […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
“What’s your favorite time of the year?” I asked my 7-year-old son the other day. Without a pause, he nearly shouted, “Christmas Eve.” Fellow dads, listen up. We can read our kids’ excitement in two starkly different ways. How we hear and act on these words in the remaining days of Advent will determine whether […]
Local
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Wearing a golden tiara and a bright yellow ball gown flowing down to her toes, Rachel Gray opened the door of a patient’s room at Inova Children’s Hospital in Fairfax and peeked inside. “Are you up for a princess visit?” she asked the young patient. Ashley Matamoros, 12, nodded curiously, so Gray – or “Princess […]
Local
By Katie Scott
What is the weight of a human life? The scale in the delivery room was supposed to tell Dr. John Bruchalski. Would the baby, born prematurely to a mother who didn’t want it, weigh less than 500 grams and therefore be classified as “medical waste”? Or would the numbers read ever-so-slightly higher, declaring the baby […]
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By Christine Stoddard
All of the tensions between races, religions and cultures that took place when the English settled in Virginia were a repeat of what had happened in Mexico nearly a century earlier. The Spanish conquistadors did not receive a warm welcome from the indigenous people of Mexico. The Aztecs rejected Spanish customs, including Catholicism, because these […]
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By Padre José Eugenio Hoyos
El gimnasio de la Iglesia San Luis en Alexandria tuvo un lleno total para dar comienzo al VIII certamen de intérpretes de la canción católica: “Buscando una estrella para Jesús 2014”. Este evento musical es organizado por el Apostolado Hispano de la Diócesis de Arlington con el objetivo de preparar a la comunidad en oración, […]
Arts
By Christine Stoddard
“Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother Idea,” an exhibition of Marian art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, opens Dec. 5. But you can expect more than an assortment of world-class oil paintings there. Exhibition organizers hope that “Picturing Mary” will not only appeal to fine […]
