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By Marissa Luna
In 1975, Maura O’Donnell, a student at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, came up with the idea for Superdance, a 12-hour dance marathon to raise money to help find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Maura’s sister, Brenda, had passed away earlier that year from this chronic disease, and she knew the school community wanted […]
Schools
The Office of Catholic Schools will host a Teacher Job Fair March 12 at Paul VI Catholic High School, 10675 Fairfax Blvd., Fairfax, from 9 to 11 a.m. Principals from more than 30 diocesan elementary and high schools will be on hand to talk with prospective teachers about openings for the 2016-17 school year. Representatives […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – The pope is human. Pope Francis demonstrated that in Mexico, as he does wherever he goes, and most people find it attractive most of the time. In Pope Francis, Catholics can see a real person trying to live his faith in a complicated world. Sometimes he waves at them and they can […]
Local
By Steve Neill
By growing to know more about the person and personality of Jesus, many Christians get involved in work that helps others attain those basic needs – such as food, clothing and shelter – to which every man, woman and child has a right by virtue of being created by God. Richmond Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo […]
Schools
The annual St. Thomas Aquinas Mass was celebrated recently at Catholic University in Washington by Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education. Dominican Fathers John Langlois and Thomas Petri, both of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, […]
National
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – The best way for Catholic colleges to move forward is to look back, said speakers at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. They were not stressing the need to reminisce but instead emphasizing the importance of tapping into the charisms particular to the orders that founded many Catholic […]
Local
By Katie Scott
For many early risers, coffee is a necessary burst of caffeine sipped out of a travel mug en route to work or while checking the day’s first emails. Not for Daniel Velasquez, who grew up a parishioner of St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax and now attends St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. When he […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia Feb. 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public service of one of the most important Catholic figures in America over the past half-century. Justice Scalia was regarded, by admirers and detractors alike, as the most consequential jurist of his […]
National
By Zoey Dimauro
On the cold, cloudy day of Feb. 19, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was honored by the American people he served. As his coffin lay in the Great Hall of the United States Supreme Court, draped with a flag and guarded by four former law clerks, tens of thousands of people stood outside. They waited […]
Local
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Wealth and power are meant to serve the poor and the well-being of everyone, not to selfishly exploit others, Pope Francis said. When power loses that sense of service, it “turns into arrogance and becomes control and subjugation,” he said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Feb. 24. But […]
