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By Gretchen R. Crowe
The whitewashed bricks and stones that make up the walls of Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church in Arlington aren’t exactly uniform. Some are big, some are small; some jut out; some are bumpy. Together, according to Spiritan Father Tim Hickey, pastor, they make up a perfect metaphor for the parishioners of the cozy church […]
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By Mike Flach
Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Harrisburg, Pa., is building a new church that is expected to be completed later this year. The church will seat 1,400 people, making it one of the largest churches in the Harrisburg Diocese. The new church will have a beautiful marble altar, ambo, baptistery and tabernacle stand thanks to […]
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By Dave Borowski
There’s a pin that Tom Grodek, program director of St. Martin de Porres Senior Services in Alexandria, wears on the lapel of his jacket. It’s small and nondescript; you’d need to be just a few feet away to make out the shape – the soles of two tiny feet with silver finish. The pin is […]
National
By Carolee Mcgrath
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Many Catholics in the Springfield Diocese mourned the loss of Father Paul J. Archambault, a 42-year-old priest who was found dead July 3 at the rectory of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Parish in Springfield. Springfield police confirmed that the priest, a chaplain at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and a […]
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. We have been told that when we go to heaven we will have a “beatific vision” of God. This has always baffled me. What do those words mean? (Oneonta, N.Y.) A. The “beatific vision” means the eternal and direct visual perception of God. It means seeing God face to face. We have some sense, […]
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By Dave Borowski
Excited students ran from Holy Spirit Church in Annandale last Friday to Holy Spirit School where they sat on the gym floor waiting for the day’s instructions. It was the last day of Vacation Bible School and energy levels were high. The theme for the weeklong program was “Winning the World for Jesus.” Classes concentrated […]
Movies
Coarse comedy celebrates a morally impaired middle-school teacher (Cameron Diaz) bent on landing a rich husband. Foul-mouthed, slatternly, racist, and conniving, she sets her sights on a new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake) while feuding with one full-time colleague (Lucy Punch) and rejecting the attentions of another (Jason Segel). Working from a script by Gene Stupnitsky […]
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In director John Lasseter’s winsome – and equally family-friendly – sequel to 2006’s “Cars,” some of the anthropomorphic vehicles of the first feature depart Route 66 for an around-the-world adventure as a veteran racecar (voice of Owen Wilson) accepts a challenge to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix across three countries. With his best […]
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Mediocre comic book adaptation, directed by Martin Campbell, in which a devil-may-care test pilot (Ryan Reynolds) is endowed with superhuman powers and joins the ranks of an elite force of intergalactic warriors. Opposing the flyboy is a biology professor (Peter Sarsgaard) whose accidental infection with super-villain negative energy offers him the chance to act on […]
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Writer-director J.J. Abrams ably blends nostalgia, drama and sci-fi thrills as he travels back to 1979 Ohio where a half-dozen youthful film enthusiasts (most prominently Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney and Riley Griffiths) use the local railroad station as a set for the endearingly amateur zombie flick they hope to enter in a local festival. But […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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