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The parish community at St. Ann Church in Arlington gathered for a special Mass on the feast of the Holy Trinity June 4 to send off one of their own. Brother Mark Joyce, a parishioner, will enter the novitiate for the Missionhurst-CICM in the Philippines this month. Brother Joyce entered the order nearly two years […]
Columns
By Jeff Caruso
A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision restored the power to protect life from the moment of conception to the people and their elected representatives. As a result, many states have implemented laws that are saving thousands of preborn children. More than half of the states, however, have few limits on abortion. Virginia […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
Some days you wonder how to take the next step, how to keep moving forward with purpose and determination (and maybe even joy?) when you’re walking a road that you didn’t choose and you don’t particularly like. You wonder how you will find the grit and determination and strength to just live through another unforeseen […]
Schools
Daisy Almaraz, a seventh grader at Sacred Heart Academy in Winchester, was recognized as a grand national champion in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. She was presented the award June 13. Last year, Almaraz won the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Contest State Championship as a sixth grader. “I enjoy writing in cursive because I feel it is […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Much attention has been paid to a recent, startling discovery: the well-preserved body of Benedictine Sister Mary Wilhelmina of the Most Holy Rosary, (1924-2019), the foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. Thousands have already flocked to the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Mo., to see Sister Mary Wilhelmina’s body […]
Columns
By Deacon Gerard-marie Anthony
During this Marian Year in our diocese, we should look to our Blessed Mother to lift our hearts amid all that can bring us down in society. Our Blessed Mother tells us to do whatever Jesus tells us (Jn. 2:5). What does he tell us? He says, “Let your hearts not be troubled” (Jn 14:1). […]
Arts
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Columns
By Lucia A. Silecchia
A while back, I was sorting through some of my Dad’s old papers, and I came across a candy wrapper and a Father’s Day card tucked into an envelope that bore a March 2001 postmark from Rome. As soon as I saw it, it brought back happy memories of a sabbatical I spent living in […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
Each June, we celebrate Father’s Day, giving thanks to God for the gift of fathers and the essential role that all fathers are called to play in building up our families and communities. In John’s Gospel, Jesus tells us, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you.” These words remind us of […]
Parishes
By Billy Atwell
When a new diocese is founded, an important consideration is the location and naming of its cathedral. When a diocese is formed out of an existing diocese, often a parish church is named as the new cathedral. This was the case in 1974, when the Diocese of Arlington was carved out of the northern […]
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