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By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – Saying he has “learned … seen so much,” Greg Erlandson is stepping down from his position as publisher at Our Sunday Visitor Inc., after nearly 27 years with the company. His last day on the job was to be Jan. 31. Erlandson told Catholic News Service that he was proud of efforts to […]
Schools
Catholic University in Washington received a $565,689 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.’s High School Youth Theology Institutes Initiative to establish a Light of the World Institute for high school students. Lilly’s initiative encourages young people to explore theological traditions, ask questions about the moral dimensions of contemporary issues and examine how their faith calls them […]
Schools
By Rachel Wilmans
Hannah Fulop, a senior at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, is the first student to take advantage of the school’s new Directed Independent Study (DIS) program. Under the guidance of science teachers Michael Potter and Eileen Liberti, Fulop is culturing and growing fruit fly cells without instructions and using lab procedures she’s designed […]
Global
By Simon Caldwell
MANCHESTER, England – It can take just one month to turn a disenfranchised teenage student into a fanatical Islamic terrorist, an English cardinal planned to warn Catholic teachers. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster planned to tell delegates at a London conference to guard against the Internet recruitment of vulnerable secondary school students by the Islamic […]
Movies
Working from the 2014 book by Mitchell Zuckoff, director Michael Bay offers a gripping account of what happened on the ground when the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of the title was overrun on Sept. 11, 2012, and four American lives, most prominently that of Ambassador Chris Stevens (Matt Letscher), were lost. John Krasinski […]
Local
Post-blizzard snowscapes capture fun, team work in the Arlington Diocese. Related: Storm doesn’t stop Alexandria wedding Roof collapses at Chantilly school Alexandria’s beautiful blizzard
Local
By Stacy Rausch
A snowstorm blanketed Old Town Alexandria in snow the weekend of Jan. 22-23. Following are photos from the aftermath of the storm.
Schools
By Zoey Dimauro
Every spring, the quiet library at Angelus Academy in Springfield becomes a little noisier as dozens of chicks poke out of their shells to the delight of students. For 10 years, librarian Jodi Shlesinger has placed several incubators amidst the books and taught the students how to care for the eggs and then the baby […]
Schools
By Robert Hay
As members of the Arlington Diocese, we are blessed to live in an area with quality choices for our children’s secondary education. With the opening of St. John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries in 2008, there are options and opportunities for rising high schoolers throughout the entire diocese. With this blessing, however, […]
Arts
By Brian Welter
The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ by Brant Pitre. Image Books (New York, 2016). 256 pp. Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero by Dennis R. MacDonald. Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md., 2015). 164 pp. Brant Pitre, a professor of sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, […]
