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Schools

Bishop Ireton High School welcomes Director Joanna Henry back to the stage

By Ashleigh Kassock

Move over comedy. Bishop Ireton High School’s new theater director has something more dramatic and angry in mind for this year’s fall play. After a 12-year break, Joanna Henry, a 40-year theater veteran, returns as Ireton’s director of theater arts to direct the play “12 Angry Jurors.” This one-set play is a dramatic deviation from the high school’s recent comic performances and is a personal favorite of Henry’s.   

Local

What is your vocation

By Ashleigh Kassock

In honor of National Vocation Awareness Week the diocesan Office of Vocations is promoting a new video featuring vocations to the priesthood, marriage and religious life along with a special message from Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge.  

Schools

Marymount receives naming gift for Ballston Center courtyard

By Special To The Catholic Herald
A prominent Northern Virginia family has continued its tradition of generosity toward Marymount University in Arlington with a naming gift for the The Reinsch Pierce Family Courtyard at the school’s recently opened Ballston Center.   The gift was announced Oct. 26 at Marymount’s annual President’s Circle Dinner, held at District Wharf in Washington “I am […]
Schools

Catholic schools find room for Puerto Rican students

By Tom Tracy
MIAMI — Catholic schools in the Miami Archdiocese are accepting students and enrollment inquiries from Puerto Rican families displaced to Florida after the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria.   An informal survey conducted in early October by the Miami Archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools indicated that some 50 students from Puerto Rico — including two […]
Schools

Catholic schools in Puerto Rico begin reopening

By Tom Tracy
MIAMI — Catholic school students in the Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and at least one other diocese on the island have resumed classes with limited water and almost no electricity service after Hurricane Maria devastated the region.   Tom Burnford, president of the National Catholic Educational Association, spoke with Ana Cortes, superintendent of […]
Schools

‘The Panther Pride’ performs at Army Ten-Miler

By Special To The Catholic Herald

"The Panther Pride,” the pep band of Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, performed as the official high school band for this year’s Army 10-Miler in early October.  

Columns

Reaction on leaving Mass early

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle

Fr. Kenneth Doyle received the following responses to his recent column on the number of people who regularly leave church after receiving the Eucharist. The column appeared in the Oct. 12 edition of the Catholic Herald.


Columns

Charity is the difference

By Fr. Jack Peterson, Ya

In our Gospel for today, Jesus criticizes some of the scribes and Pharisees who exercised their authority and their teaching ministry such as my high school teacher. “They tie up heavy burdens hard to carry and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them.”

Columnists

Marriage and social class

By Russell Shaw
Among the benign myths that lie close to the hearts of many Americans is the belief that, in the end, social class differences don’t count for all that much. It’s the Horatio Alger story: hard work and perseverance will pay off for anyone who wants to get his or her slice of the American Dream. […]
Columnists

The lost art of being alone

By Elizabeth Foss
Three times today, an email asked for my “bio.” While it’s not at all unusual for freelance writers to be asked to write a blurb for an article or essay or book, it is a bit of a coincidence for me to need all three in one day. As I sat with hands poised on […]

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