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By Peter Pinedo
This year’s Ash Wednesday collection, which will be taken at Masses across the U.S. Feb. 22, will send aid to the church in war-torn Ukraine and Eastern Europe, where they have helped support Catholics since the fall of communism. In 2022, the bishops found themselves in the unusual position of having to minister to a […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
What a great time to be one of the 17,000 students who attend any of our 41 diocesan Catholic schools! Our schools are thriving with increased enrollment due to our strong Catholic identity, high standards and excellent reputation. I am grateful, first and foremost, to the parents who entrust their children to our care and […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The world’s religious traditions and their followers are called to offer wisdom to the world and to “infuse it with a spirit of warmth, healing and fraternity,” which requires the participation of women as well as men, Pope Francis said. “It is not a common occurrence for followers of 12 religions — […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME — God suffers and grieves when those who profess to believe in him do not love the people he loves and do not work for the justice he desires, Pope Francis said. “God suffers when we, who call ourselves his faithful ones, put our own ways of seeing things before his, when we follow […]
Schools
The girls basketball team from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington traveled to Myrtle Beach, S.C., last month to compete in the United Bank Holiday Invitational. The team won their first game, 61-17, against Socastee from Myrtle Beach. They went on to defeat Westlake from Atlanta, 55-46, before facing Phillips Simmons from Charleston, S.C., in […]
Arts
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Local
Five men will be ordained to the permanent diaconate Jan. 28 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. Read their bios below: Linus Barloon, a parishioner of Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville, was born Oct. 25, 1970, in the Netherlands. He attended Decorah High School in Iowa (1985-89) and earned a bachelor’s from […]
Schools
St. Michael School in Annandale hosted an International Day in the cafeteria Jan. 21 that included music, dancing and a fashion show.
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Schools
By Leslie Miller
When her three children were growing up, Sue Gibbons and her family moved overseas every few years for her husband’s job, living in such far-flung locales as Senegal, Denmark, Vietnam and Australia. But when they were back home in Virginia, the kids always returned to Holy Spirit School in Annandale. “I always came back too, […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Christians must not “put pressure on others” to convert or induce in them “feelings of guilt,” but take a weight off their shoulders through joyfully sharing the Gospel, Pope Francis said. At his general audience Jan. 25, the pope explained that Jesus frees people from all forms of oppression and that this […]
