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The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales will sponsor their 12th annual Live Jesus morning of reflection, fellowship and prayer March 21 at St. John Neumann Church, 11900 Lawyers Road, Reston, 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Continental breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. This year’s theme will be “Living Gently: Finding God in the […]
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By Katie Scott
Last Friday night at Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church in Arlington, parishioners reflected on diversity and community as they sipped steamy vegetable soup and enjoyed Lenten-themed crafts – chatting and laughing while dabbing glue and snipping ribbon. The Stone Soup Suppers, offered each week during Lent, feature Mass, a simple meal and a presentation. […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Imagine being excited to tell your family and friends that you finally received a job offer after a long and arduous search. After their initial exclamations of joy, your loved ones would naturally ask the next question – where is this new job? For Steven Hemler, that “where” was the Middle East. Many of his […]
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Alexandria’s 34th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held March 7 in Old Town Alexandria at 12:30 p.m. Hosted by the Ballyshaners, who promote Irish heritage through the parade and the Ballyshaners Festival in the summer, the parade will start at the corner of King and Alfred streets and proceed east down King Street […]
Books
By Laura Ieraci
VATICAN CITY – A cookbook featuring favorite dishes of the three most-recent popes and their elite military corps will be available this summer in English. “Buon Appetito, Swiss Guard” was written by 24-year-old David Geisser, who had worked as a chef and published two popular cookbooks in his native Switzerland before joining the Swiss Guard […]
Movies
High school is a battleground where cliques fight for supremacy in this derivative comedy, directed by Ari Sandel and based on the eponymous novel by Kody Keplinger. The demeaning premise is that certain students are branded the “Designated Ugly Fat Friend.” Determined to overcome her relegation to this insulting category, a teen (Mae Whitman) enlists […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Belinda Monahan has analyzed more than 100,000 animal bones in Armenia dating back from the Early Bronze Age (1200 BC) to the Medieval period. For the 44-year-old archaeologist from New Jersey, the thrill never wears off. “When you look at a stork’s lower leg bone,” she says, “it’s about as long as my lower leg […]
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: In light of the President’s recent remarks at the Prayer Breakfast referencing ISIS to the Crusades as if the beheadings, burnings, etc. throughout the ages had already happened in the “name of Jesus,” I would like to know a little history of the Crusades/Inquisition. – A reader in Woodstock A: Recall, the last issue […]
Movies
Four intrepid young medical researchers – Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters and Donald Glover – working to develop a treatment to restore neural functions in coma patients discover that their therapy can bring animals back from the dead. When they apply the process to humans, the results are supposedly scary. Screenwriters Luke Dawson and […]
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By Mary Witko
Baker’s flour covers every inch of the center island in Sydney Mandrgoc’s kitchen. Taped to the microwave is a freehand drawing of an ornate, two-tiered cake. Along the side counters, candy decorations sit drying. And in the center of it all sits the almost finished product: a pink and lavender masterpiece covered in fondant smooth […]
