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This fact-based slice of psychedelic history sees the young manager (Demetri Martin) of a failing Catskills motel owned by his downtrodden immigrant parents (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton) inadvertently becoming a crucial player in the staging of the iconic 1969 music festival when he uses a legal permit to ease the way for the event’s […]
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By Catholic News Service
BOSTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was mourned at a Boston church and laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery Aug. 29, amid words of comfort from the Book of Wisdom, Paul’s Letter to the Romans and the Gospel of Matthew, and recollections of his life by his sons, his pastor, President Barack Obama and […]
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By Sr. Margie Lavonis
Where did the summer go? With colleges and universities beginning to gear up for a new academic year, it is time to review some beatitudes for college students: Blessed are the students who stay in touch with God during their academic life, they will always have a friend by their side. So many times students […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Looking to spend a spare $19 million? The private Catholic high school Oakcrest School in McLean is accepting sealed bids for its current property on Balls Hill Road in McLean in anticipation of moving to a new location near Hunter Mill Road in Vienna. The all-girls school purchased its future site, which is on 23 […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Editor’s Note: Please see a special statement below about the Order of Virgins from Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde. On Saturday, Carmen Briceno, 28, will put a veil on her head, recite vows and slip a wedding band on her finger. Her spouse, however, will not be standing next to her in a tuxedo. Instead […]
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Elizabeth Ann Seton’s birthday will be observed at the Basilica at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 333 South Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, Md., Aug. 30. She was made co-patron of the Arlington Diocese in 1975 by then-Bishop Thomas J. Welsh. Father Michael J. Kennedy, Seton Shrine chaplain, will celebrate Mass at 1:30 p.m. […]
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By Katie Bahr
The Arlington Diocese lost a longtime caretaker of the sick, familiar face and friend Aug. 14 with the death of Msgr. John T. Cilinski. He was 85. “Our diocesan family, and especially my brother priests and I, are experiencing on the human level a profound loss in the death of Msgr. Cilinski,” said Arlington Bishop […]
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By Tom Grenchik
As members of Congress head home for their August recess, we now have a better picture of where everyone stands on health care reform. While the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) supports genuine health care reform, there is a clear line in the sand between our bishops and some congressional leaders. Last month, Bishop […]
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By George Weigel
In A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, offers an account of, and an apologia for, his dramatic life. One reader, a prominent scholar and convert who lives in a very different pew than Archbishop Weakland’s, so to speak, nonetheless told me that the Benedictine prelate’s memoir was […]
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By Catholic News Service
BARNSTABLE, Mass. – Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was “a woman of ardent faith and generous public service” in her work with the developmentally and physically disabled, said Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States. In a letter to Shriver’s family released to the press and posted on […]
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