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The Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington was filled with married couples and their families for the Mass for Marriage Jubilarians Oct. 20. More than 190 couples came together to celebrate their 25th and 50th wedding anniversaries.
Local
Organizers of the 2025 diocesan Catholic Charities ball intend to raise $1.6 million at the 43rd annual event Feb. 7, 2025, at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner.
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Looking for a new home? A spouse? A job? A miracle? There’s a novena for that. The nine-day prayer usually is invoked for a specific intention, be it safe travels, healing from illness or a peaceful death, and is prayed to God or a saint associated with that intention. Kristin Bryant, a parishioner of St. […]
National
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is promoting a variety of resources to support parish efforts during November, National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, to educate the faithful on caring for human life until its natural end.
Schools
By Sophia Grace Karak
On the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4, a group of 13 senior girls from Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores headed to San Damiano, the diocesan retreat center in Frederick County, for their annual weekend retreat.
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
There was a time when Katherine Louise DeGroot didn’t consider quiet suburbs or small towns. She was a city girl, thank you very much, and it suited her work as a nanny and a photographer.
Columns
By Sister Constance Veit
Synodality has become a bit of a buzz word in the church. Pope Francis has been talking about synodality since the beginning of his pontificate. He believes it is “the path that God expects of the church in the third millennium,” a “constitutive,” or essential, element of the church. The pope’s focus on synodality is […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide in scaling the lofty mountain of purgatory in the second book of Dante’s tour-de-force account of the afterlife, “The Divine Comedy.” They’ve […]
Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Arlington is home to a rich history and welcoming community. Richmond Bishop Peter L. Ireton established the parish in 1945 in response to the request of 16 Black Catholics to establish a Black Catholic parish in Arlington County where they could worship in […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
I just finished a truly amazing, yearlong class on prayer. In the last session, we took the Myers-Briggs personality test, to help us discover which prayer methods might be the most fruitful for us. I learned I am an ENFP. In my results, I read the following.
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