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As announced in the July 25 print edition by Billy Atwell, Chief Communications Officer for the diocese, the Catholic Herald will begin a biweekly print schedule Sept. 12. There will be no print edition Sept. 5. In addition, the paper will expand its current print distribution from 40 percent of diocesan households to roughly 80 percent.
Directors of religious education from around the diocese attend a kickoff at Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville Aug. 20. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge speaks with Sheila Noble (left) from St. Francis of Assisi in Triangle and Nancy Simms from St. Jude Church in Fredericksburg.
Fr. Planty speaks about the elements that give beauty to sacred architecture.
Construction at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington will delay the start of the academic year six days. School starts for incoming freshmen Sept. 4. They have three full days of orientation and intro classes before returning students report Sept. 9.
Father Noah C. Morey is the new chaplain at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, replacing Father Edward J. Bresnahan, who became parochial vicar at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton.
A program created by John Meehan, English teacher and instructional coach at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, is trying to change teaching with games.
The Catholic Campus Ministry Center at George Mason University in Fairfax held its annual new student Luau at the St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel Aug. 23.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington has appointed Chieko T. Noguchi as director of the Office of Public Affairs at the conference's headquarters in Washington.
Decorated with Tibetan prayer flags hanging from the basketball hoops and the stage bursting with colorful tapestries, the St. Bernadette School gym in Springfield was transformed Aug. 25 for the Capital Area Tibetan Association’s visit by the seventh Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who speaks internationally on Buddhism.
We have just begun the four-and-a-half-month span — between the solemnities of the Assumption (Aug. 15) and Mary, mother of God (Jan. 1) — into which all our holy days of obligation are now compressed.
