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By Christina Capecchi
On Sunday night the email landed in Mike Foss’ inbox: He had been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30,” the business magazine’s annual list of rising stars younger than 30. Mike Foss, the soccer player from Springfield, the kid who had been home-schooled through 12th grade. This sent Facebook abuzz: boldfaced evidence that home schooling […]
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By Dave Borowski
After every weekday 6:45 a.m. Mass at St. Luke Church in McLean, about a dozen or so people make the short walk from the Blessed Sacrament Chapel to the Flaherty Hall kitchen to participate in a St. Luke tradition that is 50 years old – Kaffee Klatch. According to Mary Connery, one of the founding […]
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By Katie Scott
A little after 8:30 a.m. May 21, 2005, the first patient stepped through the doors of the Guadalupe Free Clinic in Colonial Beach. She didn’t know it at the time, but late-stage cancer filled her body. “We knew something was wrong, but didn’t know what,” said her husband, Frank Anderson (his name has been changed […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Holy Year of Mercy will be an opportunity to encourage Christians to meet people’s “real needs” with concrete assistance, to experience a “true pilgrimage” on foot, and to send “missionaries of mercy” throughout the world to forgive even the most serious of sins, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella. The yearlong extraordinary jubilee […]
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By Katie Scott
“This place is about people constantly moving forward as their hands pull others along – and then those people in turn are reaching out and lifting others up,” said Kenisha Salvary, a single mother who was homeless for 10 years. “It’s a ripple effect of hope.” Salvary, 25, was describing what was for 30 years […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Alward V. Burch dedicated his life to Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, first as a teacher and record-breaking baseball coach, then as its longtime principal. The school returned the favor April 30 when it dedicated its new baseball stadium in his honor. Donna Burch, Al Burch’s widow, cut the ribbon on the field, and […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Robert A. Lange, who retired from active service in the Arlington Diocese in 2012, died May 4 at St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly in Richmond after a long illness. He was 70. “Father Lange’s love for the Lord was so evident and visible, coupled with the desire to lead people to Jesus Christ […]
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The Office of Youth Ministry hosted BASH 2015 April 25 at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax. More than 500 students attended the daylong festivities that included Mass celebrated by Father Thomas Cavanaugh, parochial vicar of St. Theresa Church in Ashburn. After listening to inspirational stories from speakers Bob Rice and Katie Prejean, students […]
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St. Rita School in Alexandria hosted 53 students at the Catholic schools chess tournament April 26. Competing in three age groups, the students represented 13 diocesan elementary schools. Photos by Gerald Martineau for the Catholic Herald.
Schools
By Theresa Matula
Members of Fiat, a club for young women at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, strive to inspire their peers to follow Christ according to the Blessed Mother’s humble example. Through Fiat, girls come together to experience the joy of prayer, friendship and community and are encouraged to live by Mary’s model of virtue to […]
