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By Leslie Miller
Discovering your vocation is a great adventure that could be compared to a road trip with friends, speakers told about 1,300 eighth graders from Catholic schools all over the diocese at the annual Mass for Vocations March 24 at All Saints Catholic Church in Manassas. Students were encouraged to ponder and pray about what future […]
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By Special To The Catholic Herald
The varsity cheerleading team from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria won the grand championship title at the Christian Cheerleaders of America competition March 6 in Fayetteville, N.C.
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By Kevin Schweers
Prayers for peace in Ukraine poured forth from weekend Masses across Virginia, but for approximately 100 Catholics in a Front Royal church March 20, the petitions were especially personal and fervent. At Sts. Joachim and Anna Ukrainian Catholic Church, you may be a pew away from someone who was born in Ukraine, worked there or can trace their lineage to those resisting Russian bombings and aggression today.
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — As Russian bombardments continue to decimate Ukraine, Pope Francis prayed that God would free the world from war and the need to self-destruct. “May the Lord send us his Spirit so that we may understand that war is a defeat for humanity, that those who make war have a need for defeat […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Handing on the faith from generation to generation requires listening personally and directly to older people’s lived experiences and stories of faith, Pope Francis said. “Today the catechism of Christian initiation generously draws on the Word of God and conveys accurate information on dogmas, the morals of the faith and the sacraments,” […]
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By Nicholas Munson
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine may seem like a world away for most Americans, but for one Marymount University student, who was born in Ukraine and has family members scattered across the country, it hits much too close to home. Senior graphic and media design major A.C. asked for his full name to be withheld […]
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By Leslie Miller
The Little Way Cafe is indeed little — but so was the proverbial mustard seed. Despite its size, the cafe, part of the newly renovated parish hall at St. Louis Church in Alexandria, will be key to “creating a vibrant parish life,” said Father Keith O’Hare, pastor. Billed as the first parish-based cafe in the […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
The Sons of Thunder, a high school group for boys based at St. Raymond of Peñafort Church, Springfield, usually gets together for prayer and discussions about current events, theology and politics from a Catholic perspective. Topics run the gamut, said adult coordinator Anthony Pomilla. “Sometimes we start with Just War (theory) and end with masculinity […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — A Vatican office led by a cardinal or archbishop has no more authority than one led by a layperson because all offices of the Roman Curia act in the name of the pope, said experts presenting Pope Francis’ new constitution on the Curia’s organization. “Whoever is in charge of a dicastery or other organism […]
