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By Katie Collins
The piety at St. Lawrence “is very striking,” said Mary Ann Hartzell, director of religious education at the Alexandria parish for the past four years. “What struck me my first year here, when visiting the church once a day, was that it was never empty.” (See video profile on the parish here.) A recent Thursday […]
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By Catholic News Service
BETHESDA, Md. – R. Sargent Shriver, the founder and first director of the Peace Corps, a major figure in the war on poverty and the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1972, died Jan. 18 in a Bethesda hospital at age 95. Shriver, who was admitted to Suburban Hospital Jan. 16, had announced in 2003 that […]
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By Dave Borowski
It’s recycling at its most profound. Dioceses across the country are consolidating their parishes by closing churches and merging congregations. The sacred artifacts from the closed churches are being acquired by those building or renovating their own. It can be a poignant time for the parish that’s closed, but a joyous one for the community […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Albert A. Anderson Jr. Albert A. Anderson Jr., 65, was born in Norfolk, Va., and has been a parishioner of St. Joseph Church in Alexandria for 20 years. He graduated from Norfolk Catholic High School in 1963 and earned an associate’s degree in data processing and accounting from Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale in […]
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By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Exactly one year after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people, including the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Pope Benedict XVI named a new archbishop and new auxiliary bishop for that nation’s capital. On the anniversary of the earthquake Jan. 12, the pope named Bishop Guire Poulard of Les Cayes, […]
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By Catholic News Service
TUCSON, Ariz. – With flags nationwide flying at half-staff and people pausing for a moment of silence Jan. 10, the victims of the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson were being remembered for their warmth and goodness, some for their sense of public service, and several for their involvement in their churches. The attack during […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Remote Medor, Haiti, was thrown uncharacteristically into the spotlight during a recent medical clinic hosted in part by a delegation from Arlington’s Our Lady, Queen of Peace Parish’s Haiti Committee. For two weeks in December, the small village in Haiti’s central mountains was taxed for space and food as dozens of medical workers and builders […]
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By Katie Bahr
Some anniversaries are celebrated loudly, with parties and ceremonies, big occasions marking big accomplishments. Other anniversaries are celebrated quietly – in small moments of recollection and reminiscing, moments that can be easily forgotten or skipped over if you’re not careful. Such was the case when St. Agnes Church in Arlington celebrated the 43rd anniversary of […]
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By Richard Szczepanowski
WASHINGTON – The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington has sometimes been called “a hymn in stone.” This year, it can also rightly be called “a hymn in gingerbread.” That is because Charles Froke, the executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, has recreated the national shrine […]
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Knights of Columbus denied allegations made in two lawsuits filed Dec. 14 that the fraternal organization did not address claims that a former Knight abused two men decades ago when they were young and tried to conceal the allegations. The lawsuits claim that Juan “Julian” Rivera, a former leader of […]
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