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By Anna Harvey
While student athletes return to the classrooms soon, they have already taken to the practice fields, where they need to be protected from a unique opponent: heat stroke. The majority of deaths due to heat stroke occur in July and August. As student athletes prepared to return in August, athletic trainers, directors and nurses in […]
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— The Arlington diocese surveyed the faithful in May about their preferred methods of receiving information and news, and completed reviewing the responses last month. — The 2023 survey received 3,190 total responses. — According to diocesan officials, the goal was to identify current audiences and their communications preferences along with needs and opportunities […]
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Parishes
What’s distinctive about your parish? Each of the 16 stained-glass windows throughout the church are worth a closer look. Three large windows in the narthex greet parishioners as they enter. A large rose window is behind the altar and the remaining 12 are evenly divided on the right and left as visitors face the altar. […]
Global
By Walter Sánchez Silva
The bishop for the military and head of the Bishops’ Delegation for the Causes of the Saints in Argentina, Santiago Olivera, announced the beginning of the cause for canonization of Argentino del Valle Larrabure, an army colonel tortured and murdered in 1975 by Marxist rebels. The prelate made the announcement during a Mass celebrated Aug. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Our Lady of Guadalupe and other recognized Marian apparitions show clearly how evangelization does not require complicated plans and elaborate theological explanations but sharing the faith in “a language suitable for all, a language that is comprehensible, like that of Jesus,” Pope Francis said. At Guadalupe, in fact, “Our Lady proclaims God […]
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Schools
For the third consecutive year, enrollment at Catholic schools is higher than in the academic year that preceded it, according to diocesan officials, who forecast an opening student count of more than 18,400 children across 50 parochial schools, including independent Catholic elementary, middle and high schools. “The foundation of authentic Catholic education is a commitment […]
Bishop Burbidge
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Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments: Parochial Vicars Reverend David Dodd, TOR from Parochial Vicar at Saint Joseph Parish in Herndon to ministry outside the Diocese of Arlington, effective August 15, 2023. Reverend Michael J. Higgins, TOR from ministry outside the Diocese of Arlington to Parochial Vicar […]
National
By Daniel Payne
A Catholic charity nonprofit does not often have any chance to brag one way or the other about what it does. But the Thrifty Sisters thrift store on the outskirts of Richmond at least wants shoppers to know one thing. “We were the first Catholic thrift store in the area!” a worker said with a […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — The top-ranking U.S. military officer told reporters he and Pope Francis discussed the war in Ukraine, especially the war’s impact on the people there. Gen. Mark A. Milley, a Catholic, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military adviser to the president, traveled to the Vatican Aug. […]
