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Schools

Bringing classical music to a new generation

By Diogo Faust and Michael Weber
At Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, where most students’ playlists are filled with the latest pop hits, the Symphony Club is taking a different approach.
Local

Franciscan University provides teacher pipeline

By Jim Hale
Hannah Walker didn’t agonize about where she would begin her teaching career when she graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2021. Her sister Maggie Walker Ostrich helped to make the decision easy. “She taught in the Arlington diocese right after she graduated and constantly talked about how faithful the diocese was, how great her […]
Local

Chief development officer brings Aggie Catholic spirit

By Jim Hale
When Peter de Keratry arrived at Texas A&M University in 1993, College Station, Texas was hardly a bastion of Catholicism. “It was largely Mass and pizza,” said de Keratry, who took over as chief development officer in the diocese in October. “We had one campus minister and a total staff of four with a budget […]
Local

Is Virginia the new abortion capital of the South?

By Zoey Maraist
The overturning of Roe v. Wade was a long-awaited victory for pro-lifers. But in Virginia, national and local pro-abortion forces stymied the pro-family environment many Catholics had hoped would follow the Supreme Court reversal.
Bishop Burbidge

House and senate floor votes on proposed constitutional amendments

By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Barry C. Knestout
Throughout our Commonwealth, many have been following closely the intense and rapidly moving debates on resolutions proposing to amend Virginia’s constitution by adding an extreme and deadly “right to abortion” amendment (HJ 1/SJ 247), repealing the one-man/one-woman marriage provision approved by Virginia voters in 2006 (HJ 9/SJ 249), and guaranteeing the restoration of voting rights to all who have completed their sentences (HJ 2/SJ 248).
Local

Joe Shircliff, 8, dies following surgery complications

Joe Shircliff, a parishioner of St. Patrick Church in Fredericksburg along with his siblings and parents, Rob and Erin, died Jan. 18 from complications following a tonsillectomy performed Jan. 13, the family said on social media. He was 8 years old.
Art
Local

Youths express commitment to the unborn

Youths throughout the diocese have expressed their commitment to respecting and protecting human life in the recent Youth Apostles Pro-life Multimedia Contest. Some 232 participants competed in six media categories: essays, posters, PowerPoints, memes, spoken word and videos.
Parishes

St. Paul Mission

What’s distinctive about your parish? Originally founded in 1890, St. Paul Mission today has a brand-new, beautiful, country-style Catholic church, dedicated in March 2022. We are located in Hague, part of Virginia’s Northern Neck peninsular region, where the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers meet the Chesapeake Bay.

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