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By Ashleigh Buyers
In 1984, a group of seminarians in Madrid, Spain, decided to take a leap of faith in their vocation. Inspired by their mutual devotion to Mary and by the papacy of Pope John Paul II, these five young men together formed the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The new order was approved […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Since 2008, Denny d’Alelio, a member of the Holy Spirit Knights of Columbus council in Annandale, has managed a crib distribution effort called Project Manger. The project began when Dolores Wisecarver, director of A Woman’s Choice, a Falls Church pro-life crisis pregnancy center, was trying to help a woman who told her she was going […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama unveiled a series of executive orders Jan. 5 intended to make a dent in gun violence in the United States, people reacted. And how. “Thank God that someone finally has the courage to close the loopholes in our pitiful gun control laws to reduce the number of mass shootings, […]
Movies
By Joseph Mcaleer
NEW YORK – What’s a small-town pastor to do when his crumbling church in a crime-ridden neighborhood is desperately strapped for cash? Why, become a professional wrestler by day and moolight as a vigilante, of course! That’s the unlikely – yet fact-based – premise of “The Masked Saint” (Freestyle), director Warren P. Sonoda’s screen version […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Chatting with a British bishop who’d said the famous Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc sometimes came to his home when he was a child to visit his father, a friend, I asked the obvious question: What was Belloc like? The bishop didn’t say a lot, but I do remember this: “… an old man in a […]
Local
For the first time in Arlington, the Institute of Catholic Culture and The Cardinal Newman Society are co-sponsoring a presidential conference entitled “CRISIS: Catholic Higher Education and the Next Generation.” The conference will be held Jan. 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Burke Hall at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. […]
Global
By Doreen Abi Raad
BEIRUT – While the flow of migrants into Europe and the West has sparked controversy, Lebanon continues to bear the brunt of absorbing massive numbers of refugees. A commonly cited figure is that one in four people in Lebanon is displaced from Syria. “They are everywhere … in all of Lebanon,” Father Paul Karam, president […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Oprah Winfrey has joined Weight Watchers, which means she is not only a card-carrying, point-counting member of the weight-loss club, she is also a part owner. That’s how you do it when you’re Oprah: You go big or you don’t bother. For the 61-year-old billionaire, news of her involvement in the company and her investment […]
National
By Nancy Wiechec
TUMACACORI, Ariz. – Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, an Italian missionary to the American Southwest known as the “Padre on Horseback,” was honored Jan. 10 at the Tumacacori National Historical Park with Kino Legacy Day. The celebration of the priest – who founded 24 missions and was also known as an astronomer, builder, mapmaker, linguist, […]
National
By Patricia Coll Freeman
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Retired Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage died Jan. 10 at his home in Anchorage. He was two days shy of his 89th birthday. He served as archbishop for a quarter-century, from 1976 to 2001. For six years before that, Archbishop Hurley was a bishop in Juneau. “In the death of Archbishop […]
