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A month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Catholic organizations, groups and individuals were still among the most prominent responders to the needs of a suffering people. 

Seton School in Manassas celebrated the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima Oct. 13 in a big way. The festivities began with the seventh-grade girls processing into the John Paul II Center connected by a prayer chain made from student petitions. They laid the chain at the foot of the statue of the Blessed Mother.

Virginians will cast ballots Nov. 7 in several important elections: races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, as well as for their local Virginia delegate seat. All these races are important. The Virginia Catholic Conference 2017 voter education materials, all available and printable at vacatholic.org, will help guide voters as they consider their ballots.   

Good Shepherd Church, 8710 Mount Vernon Hwy., in Alexandria, will hold its 5th annual Homeless for a Night CAMPOUT Nov. 18 and 19. Groups interested in participating should register by Nov. 13. This year Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge will celebrate Mass at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Find out more Contact Kurt Rausch at [email protected].

You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The medieval Catholic Church created the feast of All Saints Nov. 1 to honor the blessed people who could not be included in the church's formal list of saints. In England, the word "hallow" was used to mean the sacred, and thus there the day was All Hallows' Day.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va.—“The shrine we dedicate today both invites us to live the Fatima message with renewed commitment and gives us the means to do so: enabling us to pray the rosary with greater devotion and to be renewed in our dedication to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of the Diocese […]

An Arlington woman climbs Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for cancer research.

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Last week a friend invited my wife and me to join her in celebrating the 50th anniversary of her perpetual vows. It was a simple but moving ceremony. There was a Mass with guests and members of her religious community. At the offertory she renewed her vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and hospitality.   I […]
This time of year always brings me back to my childhood. With fond nostalgia, I remember the pinecone turkeys we made in Girl Scouts, the pilgrim costumes my mother painstakingly sewed and the necklaces made of painted pasta that my sisters and I managed to pull apart, scattering raw macaroni all over the back seat […]

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