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VATICAN CITY — With Lent as a time for conversion, Pope Francis has laid out a handy guide in a new series reflecting on the seven virtues and their opposites — a host of "parasites" that will feast away without the fortifying "vitamins" of virtue in one's daily diet.
There was a great deal of bustling in the AP English classroom after school in January as students at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores came to assist a classmate with her school-wide book drive. Gabriella Molseed, a bibliophilic senior, saw a need for children's books for the local shelter and led an effort to gather books for the group.
An online benefit concert hosted by Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, honoring the life of Andriko Bilaniuk, a rising junior and talented violinist who died of cancer July 12, will be held March 26, beginning 1 p.m.
To defeat the dark force that has brought turmoil to her once-tranquil world and turned many of its inhabitants into stone statues, a teen (voice of Kelly Marie Tran) teams with a dragon (voice of Awkwafina) on a quest to reunite the five fragments of a magical gem that, once made whole again, will restore peace and revive the petrified.
In this slight comic sequel, the African prince of the 1988 original (Eddie Murphy) succeeds his father (James Earl Jones) as king and learns that he has a son (Jermaine Fowler).
Dull dystopian science fiction drama, set in the distant future on a planet colonized by humans, pairs a teen inhabitant (Tom Holland) of its all-male community with a recently arrived astronaut (Daisy Ridley), the first woman he has ever seen.
Our Lenten journey at times can go something like this: You start out Ash Wednesday as a proverbial house on spiritual fire, with detailed plans and resolutions. Then about midway through the 40 days, you might hit a wall or find that some goals have not yet materialized as hoped. It can be dispiriting. Then you recover and realize the promise of this season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, in time for Easter.
Into a tough winter came more tough news — the death of my Uncle Paul (1941-2021), an Iowa farmer, forester, public servant and much more. Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack noted, “Paul Johnson loved the land and fiercely advocated for all of us to preserve and conserve it.”
Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wis.
The towels are folded in half horizontally and then in half vertically and stacked on the shelf every which way, instead of with the folded side lined up against the edge. I sigh. They fit so much better and they look so much better when they are folded in half horizontally, then in thirds, then in half again. So folded, they are easily tucked into the shelves, all folded edges out, and they look tidy and controlled. Glancing right and left down the narrow hallway, I wonder if I have time to refold them all before the person who folded them the “wrong” way finds me standing here. No chance of that.
