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By Anna Donofrio
Summertime brings long days, icy treats and much-needed family vacations. But several diocesan families traded a relaxing vacation for a rigorous spiritual — and physical — exercise: walking the 130-plus-mile “Via di Francesco” from Assisi to Rome.
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By Anna Donofrio
As teens head back to public schools across Northern Virginia, many are returning to a cultural and spiritual battlefield.
“It definitely isn’t easy to be a Catholic in a public school environment,” said Michelle Lopez, a rising senior at Fairfax High School and a parishioner of St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls Church. “If you bring out a Bible in school, you’d probably get debated about it.”
Local
By Anna Donofrio
Small farms — also called hobby farms — are a growing trend among families in rural areas of the diocese. Hobby farms allow families to homestead on a smaller scale, and even provide them with a business opportunity to sell produce and livestock.
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By Anna Donofrio
The daughter of U.S. President James Monroe died penniless and in obscurity in Paris Jan. 27, 1840. VornDick, Kathryn Willis, Sue Henderson and Maureen Goonan, a parishioner of St. Patrick Church in Fredericksburg, seek to correct the historical record while working to repatriate Eliza Monroe Hay’s remains and organizing a proper burial at her family’s plot in Richmond.
National
By Kate Quiñones
After a shooter killed two children and injured 17 other people during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school Aug. 27, the community is reeling as leaders call for prayer.
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
I join with Pope Leo XIV and my brother bishops across the country in mourning and praying for the innocent children killed at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis and all those injured by today’s senseless violence.
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
On this World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, we lift our hearts to God who has entrusted us with the gift of our common home.
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
It began as a low hum on the horizon, barely perceptible. Then a pulsing rhythm rose from the river — the brass and beat of a live band drifting through the humid summer air. The Capitol was coming.
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
The big leaf hydrangeas were a bust this year.
After a stunning year last year, we got five blooms total this year.
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