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By Zoey Dimauro
The day before spring break is exciting for any student. But for fourth-graders at St. John Academy in McLean, the day took on new significance when they were enlisted in a top secret marriage proposal plan for their teacher, Sarah Kratz. “It was the best day of the school year,” said Kratz. Kratz and her […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Despite the cold spring day with a high of just 20 degrees, 18 members of Ranger Company No. 712 from St. Veronica Church in Chantilly recently traveled to Massanutten Mountain for their annual skills hike and campout. The chilly conditions did not stop the company from having a day of fun and adventure on the […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
While President Obama is correct in saying the war on terror is not and mustn’t become a war against Islam, it would be foolish to ignore the religious dimension of Islamic terrorism as now reflected in the Holy Week attacks in Brussels. To do that would risk making the secularist world view underlying the strategic […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
It started with just two sewing machines and four female inmates. Then the men wanted a group of their own. Soon, Susan Cavanaugh was running four quilting classes at the Arlington County Detention Facility. After years of teaching General Education Development and English as a Second Language to prisoners, Cavanaugh felt the inmates needed an […]
Arts
By Dave Borowski
President Lyndon B. Johnson was a complex man who was thrust into the presidency after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963. Before being picked as Kennedy’s vice-president, Johnson was the Democratic Senate Majority leader from Texas, and was known for his heavy-handed way of steering bills through Congress. Johnson […]
Pope Francis
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on love and the family invites the church to see the daily struggles of families as an opportunity to encounter people the way Jesus encountered people with mercy throughout his life, Catholic observers said. Because of its length – 256 pages – and the depth to which the pope […]
Local
By Katie Scott
As a teenager at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls Church, Youth Apostle Father John P. Peterson experienced the power of a friendship-based faith community to ignite a lasting love of Christ. The parish youth ministry “gave me an incredible love for God, the sacraments, Scripture, the church and community life,” said Father Peterson […]
Global
By Paul Jeffrey
IRBIL, Iraq – A delegation of U.S. Catholic leaders visiting northern Iraq was challenged to go home and work for peace in the troubled region. “You have come to listen to your brothers and sisters in Iraq who are suffering. The situation is very hard. We cry out with one voice, ‘Don’t forget us,'” Auxiliary […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to Mexico since 2007, to be the new apostolic nuncio to the United States. He succeeds Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who has held the post since 2011. Archbishop Vigano turned 75 in January, the age at which canon law requires bishops to run […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ trip to Lesbos, Greece, April 16 comes at a frightening and critical time for tens of thousands of refugees and migrants waiting and wondering where they will end up, said members of Catholic aid agencies. Maristella Tsamatropoulou, spokeswoman for Caritas Hellas, the Catholic charity in Greece, said when rumors started […]
