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Saint John Paul the Great Class of 2020: June 4 graduation ceremony

Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, clearing the way for his beatification. While the Vatican announced May 27 that Pope Francis had signed the decree, it did not announce a date for the beatification ceremony.

A principal and a teacher from the Diocese of Arlington are the recipients of the highest annual leadership awards from Marymount University in Arlington.  

Many families at Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington know Cathy Carroll, who has served in the academics office for 28 years, and who lovingly transported hundreds of children over those years in her yellow school bus from Southern Maryland to Bishop O'Connell. Some O'Connell families also know her as the mother of five daughters, all of whom became registered nurses.  

As schools deal with the unprecedented situation of moving online for the last few months of the school year, St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax has been working through another unique situation —  moving an entire high school to a new location during a global pandemic. 

St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax will livestream its closing Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge June 7 at 11 a.m.

The following diocesan students were named National Merit finalists: Grace and Samantha Fisher, sisters from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria; and Lucas Haddock, Ben Raffier, and Zachary Elliott, from Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Potomac Shores.