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By Christina Capecchi
Melina Birchem has uploaded 777 images to her Instagram account over the past two years: sushi, Starbucks, her new tattoo, rosary beads, cowboy boots. Sometimes the juxtaposition is jarring. A glowing monstrance, a chilled margarita. A snapshot from waitressing, a prayer journal documenting her consecration to the Blessed Mother. As a freshman at the University […]
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Missionhurst Father Paul G. Wynants died Dec. 24, 2015, at Mount Tabor Community in Vienna, a house of prayer and Christian community established in 1975 by Missionhurst Father Arthur Verstraete. He was 90. Father Wynants was born Aug. 2, 1925, in Heverlee, Belgium. He entered the Missionhurst Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in […]
Schools
Paul VI High School in Fairfax scored big over Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria 83-54. The game was played in Alexandria Jan. 31.
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By Ashleigh Buyers
The quiet of an Alexandria neighborhood was interrupted by the sound of a bell ringing from the top of the Mary, Mother of the Church Monastery of the Poor Clares Jan. 26. The sound signaled the beginning of a wonderful and unusual liturgical event and served as an invitation to all to join the celebration. […]
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Norms for the United States, established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 1966 and reiterated in November 1973, may be summarized as follows: Abstinence Everyone older than 14 years of age is bound to observe the law of abstinence. Abstinence is to be observed on all Fridays within the season of Lent […]
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By Katie Scott
While local governments scrambled to dig out streets and sidewalks from the massive Jan. 22-23 East Coast snowstorm, students celebrated the storm dubbed “Snowzilla” by swapping classes for snowballs, movies and hot cocoa. Most diocesan schools were closed the entire week following the blizzard, which brought as much as three feet of snow to the […]
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By Soren Johnson
On the fifth day home with five young kids five miles down an unplowed gravel road, something broke. Gratefully, it wasn’t my psyche. Or my back from shoveling. We did enjoy some Norman Rockwellian family moments, but in the escalating number of school cancellations, kid-versus-kid skirmishes, garbage bags stacked near the back door, angstyness, etc., […]
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By Katie Scott
They regularly play toe-tapping tunes for the president, vice president and secretary of the Navy, but Feb. 1 the U.S. Navy Band Country Current brought its country-bluegrass lineup to students at St. Andrew the Apostle School in Clifton. The mini concert was held in the parish hall and kicked off Catholic Schools Week. “It’s a […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will not be an actor in a proposed movie based on the Gospels, a Vatican spokesman said. While details about how the pope may or may not be involved in the movie project are not yet known, it was clear the pope was not an actor and would not have […]
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