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Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington received a contribution of $20,000 from Porto Charities Oct. 27 to support its new program of expanded services for students with intellectual disabilities. “We are extremely grateful for the support of Porto Charities,” said Head of School Joseph Vorbach. “This grant helps us build a strong instructional and programmatic […]
Schools
By The Literary Arts Club
Going door to door with the typical refrain, “trick or treat” is a Halloween have-to for American youths. However, students in chorus and band from Seton School in Manassas found recently that if one brings the cookies, a band instrument and an able singing voice, he might find something more rewarding in the end than […]
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As part of their mission to support vocations, members of the Serra Club of Arlington visited seminarians at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 16-18. During their visit, Serrans learned about seminary life and listened to vocation testimonials and a presentation on recently canonized St. Junípero Serra. They shared meals with the seminarians […]
Movies
Lively profile of the computer pioneer and Apple co-founder (Michael Fassbender) who died in 2011 at 56. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uses three landmark product launches over 14 years to trace Jobs’ rise, fall and return as the company’s guiding light, and to chart his fraught professional relationships with his long-suffering gal Friday, Joanna Hoffman (Kate […]
National
By Beth Griffin
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – As Jesus called His disciples in many ways, vocation directors and seminary faculty must walk with candidates and students to understand and meet their individual needs as they discern their call to priesthood, according to the bishop of Orlando, Fla. Diocesan policies and seminary practices should accommodate varying expressions of prayer and […]
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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washiongton needs volunteers to serve Christmas dinner to those who are alone or in need Christmas Day from 12:15 to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers will serve meals in the basilica’s dining room and help deliver meals directly to homes in Washington and in Montgomery and […]
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By Dave Borowski
Every Sunday, parishioners of St. Bernadette Church in Springfield drop off canned goods at boxes in the church’s vestibule. On Monday morning, volunteers from the parish “Can-a-Week” program collect the bags of food and line them up on the floor of the vestibule for distribution after the 9 a.m. Mass. There are usually three lines […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Despite ongoing violence in the Central African Republic, Pope Francis said he hopes to be able to visit the country in late November and to anticipate the Year of Mercy by opening the Holy Door of the cathedral in Bangui, the nation’s capital. “The painful episodes that have aggravated the delicate situation […]
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By Katie Scott
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde named Father Starzynski chaplain of Inova, with residence at St. Ambrose, last June. But the down-to-earth priest with a sense of humor always had a place in his heart for healing.
The widow’s mite