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Ten students from Mary Sample’s History of the Catholic Church class at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries visited the diocesan offices Jan. 17. 

Students at St. Anthony of Padua School in Falls Church exited their last class of the day only to attend another class — art or soccer — run by Flex Academies. 

As a former principal of a Catholic elementary school just outside Washington, Mary Pat Donoghue was hit with the major factors that could close a school and almost did. Instead, she helped turn around a Hyattsville school in the space of just one year. 

Barbara McGraw Edmondson, former Chief Leadership and Program Officer with the National Catholic Educational Association, will become the Head of School at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington July 1.

Virginia Bishops Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington and Barry C. Knestout of Richmond Jan. 16 signed the U.S. Catholic Climate Declaration, a document supporting the call to take prudent action to protect the global climate, which Pope Francis reminds us is “a common good, belonging to all and meant for all” (“Laudato Si,’ On Care for Our Common Home,”  no. 23).

Though World Youth Day had not officially started, it seemed as if it unofficially began Jan. 21 on the observation deck overlooking the locks of the Panama Canal, where the young — and the young-at-heart — formed a conga line as some beat the drums and others chanted or cheered to honor the Catholic Church, Pope Francis or Mary. 

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