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By Mike Flach
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde was honored Nov. 2 for his 50 years of priestly ministry, including more than 16 years as the shepherd of this diocesan church. The theme of the tribute dinner was “Together, in the Heart of Christ.” The event was held at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church. Father Thomas […]
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Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va. blessed the new Catholic Distance University headquarters Oct. 27. CDU moved its administrative offices in September from Hamilton, Va., to Charles Town, W. Va., to make it easier for students to transfer credits and receive degree recognition under a regional accreditation agency. Find out more Go to cdu.edu […]
Movies
Outstanding historical drama, set at the height of the Cold War, in which a New York corporate lawyer (Tom Hanks) is given the thankless task of defending an accused KGB agent (Mark Rylance), does so with more doggedness than expected by those who selected him, then becomes involved in the negotiations to swap his client […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Lidia Bastianich, even at age 68, is working like crazy. She’s on her fifth public television cooking series, “Lidia’s Kitchen,” and on Dec. 11, will have a Christmas special on PBS. She also has written 13 books – most of them cookbooks – has a line of commercial cookware, separate lines of sauces […]
Local
By Jessica Marsala
Sts. Denis, Dunstan and Joan of Arc walk into a corn maze. If you thought that this was going to be the beginning of a joke, you’d be wrong. Twenty-six teens, many of them dressed as a saint or saint-to-be, gathered at the Cows-N-Corn dairy farm in Midland Oct. 30 for the third Saint Maze […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
I live my life in narrative. I love stories; they were the stuff and substance of my childhood, the things that framed my paradigm and gave shape to my dreams. Inside my head, there’s always a story going. Often the stories beg to be tapped out onto the pages of my blog or this column […]
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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, will speak on marriage and religious liberty in America Nov. 19 at St. Raymond of Peñafort Church, 8750 Pohick Rd., Springfield, at 7:30 p.m. Since taking the helm of the archdiocese, he has been […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
The sound of clarinets and flutes, violins and violas could be heard from the Bishop O’Connell High School auditorium in Arlington Oct. 31, as more than 80 students prepared for the first Diocesan Honors Music Festival. While there are a number of honors festivals in the area, this festival was the first of its kind […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
One spring day in 1976, Henrietta Van Der Molen woke in her suburb of Chicago to find herself a widow. Her husband of nearly 40 years was dead of a heart attack at the age of 59. What Henrietta did next merits study in our “Age of the Selfie,” our culture of the “Big Me.” […]
Global
By David Agren
MEXICO CITY – Pope Francis will visit Mexico in February, marking the pontiff’s first trip to the heavily Catholic country, said Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City. Cardinal Rivera revealed Pope Francis would arrive in Mexico Feb. 12 during a homily Nov. 1, but he offered no other information on itineraries or the length […]
