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By Katie Bahr
The history of Sacred Heart Parish in Manassas dates back to the early 20th century when it was founded by a group of immigrants from Austria and Czechoslovakia. The first church was built in 1918 on Spriggs Road, near the current Hylton High School in Woodbridge. One Saturday a month, a Polish priest from the […]
Parishes
By Katie Collins
Maria Lee moved from South Korea to the United States when she was 14, serving as a translator for her parents when the family arrived in their adopted country. Maria, who considers herself a Korean, an American and a Catholic, is grateful for a home that embraces and nurtures each integral part of her. That […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
If you pass through Madison County and stop for Mass at Our Lady of the Blue Ridge Church on a Sunday morning, your arm likely will be caught by Virginia Serroka, fondly referred to as the parish’s unofficial greeter. A parishioner since 1976 and a native of the county, Serroka easily can recognize an unfamiliar […]
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By Mike Flach
Twenty years ago Father Gerry Creedon arrived in Bánica in the Dominican Republic as the first priest from the Arlington Diocese to serve at the newly established mission. The area had not had a regular priestly presence since the departure of Father Raymond Conrad in 1971. The trip from the Santo Domingo airport to Bánica […]
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By Katie Bahr
Located at the top of Beacon Hill, St. Louis Parish in Alexandria marks one of the highest points in Fairfax County. But don’t be fooled by its million-mile view. With its welcoming atmosphere, which makes room for all people in the ethnically and economically diverse areas surrounding Route 1 in Alexandria, the parish is far […]
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By Dave Borowski
Pete Cilinski is 85 years old and lives at an assisted-living residence in Manassas. He’s an old man, but if you ask him to assume a boxer’s stance, he will and you’ll see the fire that made him – and other members of the St. Mary’s Boys Club Boxing Team – champions. The 1940s often […]
TV
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – You’re forgiven if you think you’ve seen Catholic actor Christopher McDonald in a court of law before. A dozen years ago, he played smarmy lawyer Rex Weller on the CBS legal drama “Family Law.” This year, McDonald has bellied up to the bar – the barrister’s bar – to play I-can’t-get-no-respect lawyer Tommy […]
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By Dave Borowski
“I love it here,” said Father Peter Nassetta, chaplain and director of George Mason University Catholic Campus Ministry. Since 2000, the 52-year-old Youth Apostle priest has been attending to the spiritual needs of students at the Fairfax university. The St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel and the Catholic Campus Ministry offices are located on Roberts Road. You […]
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By Katie Bahr
Established in 1965 by Richmond Bishop John Russell, St. Mark Parish in Vienna started out with Father Robert J. Walsh as pastor and 400 families. In its earliest days, parishioners celebrated Mass at James Madison High School in Vienna for three years before the original church was built in 1968. As the years went by, […]
Columns
By Fr. Peter J. Daly
The world needs more brothers. The Church needs more brothers. Not the “blood brother” kind, but the kind of brothers found in religious orders. Most people today don’t have any contact with religious brothers. In the United States in the late 1960s, there were more than 5,000 brothers, mostly in teaching orders. But today, there […]
