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By For The Catholic Herald
During Marymount University’s commencement exercises, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture Tony P. Hall encouraged Marymount University undergraduate degree candidates to “take the opportunity that is always around” to serve by “doing the thing that is in front of you,” as Mother Teresa advised him when he visited her […]
Columns
By Laura Ieraci | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis asked Catholics worldwide to show solidarity through their prayers for Catholics in China and for persecuted Christians over the Pentecost weekend. The World Day of Prayer for the Church in China is observed each year on the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, May 24, which this year falls […]
Global
By Michael Swan | Catholic News Service
TORONTO – As Toronto gets set to host the Pan Am Games, rights campaigners are putting their best efforts into ensuring that the city does not become a playground for human traffickers while the multi-sport, billion-dollar event takes place. Led by Catholic religious sisters, a broad coalition is getting ready for the July 10-26 Pan […]
National
By Catholic News Service
EASTON, Mass. – Presentation of the “positio,” or official position paper, on the life and holiness of Father Patrick Peyton to a Vatican congregation is the latest step in the sainthood cause of the Holy Cross priest. A May 18 statement issued by Holy Cross Family Ministries in Easton said the document was four years […]
National
By Catholic News Service
ASSISI, Italy – Delegates to the general chapter of the Franciscans elected U.S. Franciscan Father Michael Perry to a six-year term as head of the order after he had served in the role for two years. Father Perry, 60, was elected in 2013 to complete the six-year term of Spanish-born Franciscan Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo, […]
Local
By Christine Stoddard
Margaret M. Peiffer is the author of Henrietta and Henry, a self-published children’s book awarded the Trafford Gold Seal and positively reviewed by the U.S. Review of Books. But Peiffer doesn’t spend her days hobnobbing with literati. She spends her days serving Queen of Apostles School in Alexandria – and has for the past 18 […]
Local
By Lisa Socarras ¦ for The Catholic Herald
All Saints parishioner Richard Quintana, former vice president of SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) in McLean, had a successful career in the U.S. Air Force and the private sector while serving in charitable organizations. As a captain and computer systems analyst, Quintana’s achievements include involvement in the development of computerized mission control. He was assigned […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
“Ever since I was little, I loved airplanes,” said Dominic Olivera, a senior at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries. The 16-year-old senior will get his chance to study ways to build airplanes when he attends Princeton University in New Jersey this fall. He had his choice of school acceptance offers, […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
Annette Lewis began her teaching career 50 years ago on Long Island, N.Y. This June 16, she’ll say goodbye to her sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade classes at All Saints School in Manassas for the last time. She’s retiring after 37 years at the school. Lewis has taught middle school literature, writing and drama at All […]
