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By Cecilia Engbert
Patrick Kenney has endless fond memories from childhood summers spent at Camp St. Charles with his brother.
Local
National
By Anna Donofrio
The nation’s 250th birthday has been a key talking point in Washington this year. So, naturally it was the highlight of the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast March 19.
Local
By Anna Donofrio and Jim Hale
When it comes to visiting Virginia’s historic sites, many famous locations spring to mind: Mount Vernon, Manassas Battlefield, Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg.
Local
By Anna Donofrio
Two years after the Arlington diocese held synodal listening sessions across the diocese, another round of sessions, called “Ecclesial Assemblies,” began.
The new sessions are a continuation of Pope Francis’ call to examine “synodality.”
Parishes
By Anna Donofrio
No Hands But Yours is a ministry at Nativity Catholic Church in Burke devoted to serving the homeless and those in need in Northern Virginia and Washington. Every Sunday, volunteers meet at the parish, split the donations evenly, then drive their separate ways: one car headed to the nation’s capital, the others to spots throughout Northern Virginia.
The mission is simple: find the homeless or those in need on the streets, and give them food and words of encouragement.
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
The last couple weeks of Lent are difficult for the Older Brother — you know the one whose family includes the Forgiving Father and the Prodigal Son.
He is the one who stayed behind, the one who did what was expected, the one who never wandered far from the rules that ordered the household.
Local
Eighteen young adults spent Feb. 21-28 on a mission trip organized by Commissioned by Christ to El Salvador, immersing themselves in service, fellowship and local culture.
Local
By Ashleigh Kassock
How far would you go to get your child the help they need to thrive? Would you relocate to a different city? How about a different state? For a growing number of parents of individuals with special needs, that answer is yes, and that place in the Diocese of Arlington.
Pope Leo XIV
By Victoria Cardiel
“Let us rekindle in ourselves the awareness of and gratitude for having received the gift of being part of God’s people and also the responsibility that this entails,” Pope Leo urged during the general audience in St. Peter’s Square.
Local
By Jim Hale
The life of the first Catholic president is forever linked to Virginia and the small country church in Middleburg where Kennedy attended Mass for the last time with his family Nov. 10, 1963.
