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The Bishop Ireton Cardinals fell to the Benedictine College Preparatory School Cadets during the VISAA Football Championship Nov. 21. All photos by Joe Cashwell for the Catholic Herald.
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – This year’s Vatican Christmas stamps feature a 15th-century manuscript illumination of the Holy Family. Flanked by a lowing ox and a donkey, Mary and Joseph pray over Baby Jesus as angels sing above and poor shepherds approach. The image, painted by an unknown artist, is from the Codices Urbinates Latini 239 (1477-1478) […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. Today I was chatting with a friend who is a Buddhist. She does not have a deep knowledge of the Bible and she talked about Mary Magdalene as a great sinner and former prostitute who developed a romantic relationship with Jesus. I wanted to correct her, but I couldn’t find the right words. Can […]
Schools
By Kevin Darling
Each new year at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries brings new courses and experiences, but few have been as popular with students as the new senior-level elective, “Criminal Law and Procedure” taught by former FBI agent Michael McGinty. He is a former FBI special agent and lawyer who began a […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I understand that during the upcoming papal-declared year, we can seek plenary indulgences for the dead. Naturally, as I age, I have more and more friends who have died. What a wonderful thing if I could include them in this. Is it possible to gain multiple plenary indulgences for the deceased and, if so, […]
Local
By Katie Scott
When Kara Palladino lost a child through miscarriage about a year ago, she knew she wanted to bury the baby in a way that honored her Catholic faith. But after calling a long list of funeral homes and cemeteries, she couldn’t find any with a plan in place to bury and memorialize an infant lost […]
Local
By Katie Scott
“As I stared at her, Charles talked to her. We unwrapped her and looked at her face and counted her fingers and toes just like anyone would do with a newborn. But unlike most newborns, she didn’t cry.” Mary McCarthy Hines, a parishioner of St. Raymond of Peñafort Church in Springfield, and her husband, Charles, […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – For a spiritual leader who denounces a world divided by walls, a church shuttered by cliques and hearts hardened to compassion, opening wide the Holy Door for the Year of Mercy will be a significant and symbolic moment for Pope Francis. In Catholic tradition, the Holy Door represents the passage to salvation […]
Local
By Katie Scott
“Miss Anderson, your next word … is triskaidekaphobia.*” As 11-year-old Akeelah Anderson’s eyes widen and fists clench in concentration, theatergoers are on the edge of their chairs in what feels like front-row seats at a spelling bee. “Akeelah and the Bee,” a fresh and polished production by the Children’s Theatre Company, addresses themes of race, […]
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