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By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington, announced June 13 that the university would be taking a stand against binge drinking and the “culture of hooking up” by phasing out coed dorms. He likened the move to a “slightly old-fashioned remedy” to combat what he described as the “two […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
During her eventful life, Toni Bosco has amassed plenty of reasons to have felt abandoned by God. A mentally ill mother, heavy responsibilities early in life, a disastrous arranged marriage, the death of three of her seven children – the list is a painful one. But, instead of turning her back on God, the 82-year-old […]
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By Katie Bahr
The Arlington Diocese recently released a new document intended to help sick and aging Catholics maintain responsibility for their own end-of-life decisions. The document, “Catholic Advance Medical Directives,” provides information about Catholic moral teaching, as well as medical and legal terminology, and allows a person to stipulate who will be in charge of their health […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Following are biograhpies of the new pastors and administrators recently appointed by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde: Father Thomas P. Ferguson, newly appointed pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Alexandria, was born in Woodside, N.Y., on May 27, 1966, one of six children. After attending elementary school in Woodside, his family moved to Alexandria, where […]
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By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – As seven Republican candidates for president prepared for a June 13 debate in New Hampshire and others waited in the wings, there were signs that religion will play as big a role in the 2012 election as it has in other recent campaigns. Many of the declared or potential candidates lined up in […]
Movies
In this Camelot-era prequel to the “X-Men” franchise of comic-book adaptations, young mutants with assorted superpowers – most prominently Charles, aka Professor X (James McAvoy), and Erik, alias Magneto (Michael Fassbender) – team up to avert nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Director and co-writer […]
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A fun-loving grade schooler’s (Jordana Beatty) plans for a super summer go awry when her two best friends (Garrett Ryan and Taylar Hender) take off on adventures of their own, leaving her in the company of a timid third pal (Preston Bailey), her Bigfoot-obsessed little brother (Parris Mosteller) and the aunt (Heather Graham) who comes […]
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Writer-director Woody Allen’s valentine to the City of Lights – an extended travelogue filled with sumptuous scenery and pretty people – asks the question: Would you be happier living a different life in a long-ago, mythically remembered past? A frustrated Hollywood screenwriter and would-be novelist (Owen Wilson) gets to find out during a visit to […]
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The Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, except where noted differently. Pastors Reverend Thomas P. Ferguson – from Parochial Administrator of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Alexandria to Pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Alexandria, Virginia, […]
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By Jim Lockwood
BRAINTREE, Mass. – The Archdiocese of Boston has opened the canonization cause of an Opus Dei priest, Father Joseph Muzquiz, who established the organization in the United States and worked for many years in the greater Boston area. About 150 people, many of whom are local members of Opus Dei, attended the ceremony held June […]
