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By Christina Capecchi
Matt Martinusen lost his job at a precarious time. He was the sole breadwinner, and his wife, Lisa, a stay-at-home mom, had just had their third baby. The nonprofit Matt had been working for was running out of money due to COVID-19. They had to let him go. It was the day before his birthday. […]
Schools
By Allison Dunnegan
Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria offers a comprehensive band program that provides students with a unique experience. The band is directed by Melinda McKenzie Hall and Dan Kosko, who encourage anyone who played an instrument in middle school to join. The pep band and jazz band are two extra ensembles that play for the […]
Local
By Ashleigh Kassock
More than 2,000 people filed into the seats at Virginia Credit Union Baseball Stadium in Fredericksburg to hear Ricardo Castañon Gomez speak about Eucharistic miracles April 2. More than 1,400 tickets were distributed for the talk in Spanish later that afternoon. At the start of the event, Father John P. Mosimann, pastor of St. Mary […]
Arts
By Catholic Herald
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National
By George P. Matysek Jr.
TOWSON, Md. — Father Jeffrey Dauses thought for sure someone had shot at his car. Driving along Putty Hill Avenue in the Baltimore suburb of Towson Feb. 17 on a shopping run, the pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Baynesville heard a loud crash and saw pieces of a side-view mirror fly up […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Andrii Yurash, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See, presented his credentials to Pope Francis April 7. He also met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. Vatican Media images from the meeting showed Yurash presenting the pope with several gifts, including a traditional Ukrainian decorated round loaf of bread and a […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday. The request comes during the year Pope Francis asked Catholics to dedicate to families and to a rereading of “Amoris Laetitia,” his exhortation on the family, which […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Two members of a group called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said April 5 that five fetuses taken by the police a week earlier from the Capitol Hill residence of one of the activists were “proof of illegal abortions” being performed at a Washington abortion clinic. Activists Lauren Handy, 28, and Terrisa Bukovinac, 41, made […]
Schools
By Marlene Brasco
“In a crowd of thousands, I’d find you again.” In a crowd of thousands, Bishop Ireton High School students in “Anastasia” stood out for conveying the theme that self-discovery can light a pathway of hope in a world fraught with tragedy. Based on the murders of the Romanov family during the Bolshevik Revolution, “Anastasia” told […]
The contrasts in Palm Sunday