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By Maria-pia Negro
Anna Rapp wanted to part of the military for as long as she can remember. Next fall, she will have a shot at it while attending the U.S. Military Academy – also known as West Point. If the Bishop Ireton High School senior was excited to hear the news, her father – a two-star general […]
Movies
Snappy follow-up to director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of – and prequel to – the long-lived sci-fi franchise that stretches back to 1960s television. In this second chronicle of their early professional lives, dynamic, impetuous Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his seemingly emotionless half-Vulcan, half-human first officer Spock (Zachary Quinto) lead their intrepid crew on […]
Schools
By Andrew Shaw
How often have you heard that America is falling behind in preparing students for the high-tech future? Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington has made a commitment to moving forward with developing today’s students for tomorrow’s future. Part of this commitment has been the establishment of the first high school engineering program in the Arlington […]
Columns
By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: I am an elderly person, and I remember having to fulfill the Easter Duty. Does that still apply? My younger relatives look at me like, “What are you talking about?” (Springfield) A: Yes, “the Easter duty” is still applicable, although with slight adjustments. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) had mandated, “Every faithful of either […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
The following priests are celebrating jubilees in 2013. 55 years Missionhurst Father Leo J. Zonneveld was born in Holland Sept. 8, 1934, to Johannes and Querina Zonneveld, one of seven children. He entered the Missionhurst Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1952, pronouncing his first vows a year later on Sept. 8, 1953. […]
Columns
By Thomas Craughwell
St. Hallvard Feast day: May 15 In the small army of Scandinavia’s saints, one of the most appealing is St. Hallvard. He was a seafarer who traded furs, walrus ivory and amber along the Baltic Sea ports. One day Hallvard was about to sail across Oslo’s Drammenfjor, when he heard a cry. Looking up he […]
Movies
Splashy, sometimes cartoonish 3-D adaptation of the classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), scion of the WASP establishment, recounts his friendship with the iconic self-made man and would-be social insider Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) whose obsessive love for Nick’s alluring but married cousin Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) leads first […]
Local
By Katie Bahr
A mother never forgets the birth of her child. No matter what the circumstances of her pregnancy or delivery, the end result is almost always the same: one life changed forever and one life just begun. Rosemary Antunes, a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal, is very familiar with the birth […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WORCESTER, Mass. – Bishop Robert J. McManus of Worcester pleaded not guilty May 7 at a Wakefield, R.I., courthouse to charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident. According to the Boston Globe, the bishop was released on personal recognizance after his attorney, Bill Murphy, told 4th Division District Court Judge Walter […]
Movies
Special effects trump substance in this addition to the blockbuster screen franchise adapted from a series of Marvel comics dating back to 1963. As the titular superhero’s billionaire alter ego (Robert Downey Jr.) battles a mysterious, bin Laden-like terrorist (Ben Kingsley), their conflict endangers his now live-in girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow). The range of moral and […]
