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On Sunday, September 17, 2017, the Church in the United States celebrates Catechetical Sunday, a day especially set aside to give thanks to God for the faithful service and witness of those who hand on the saving message of the Gospel. In our Diocese, there are nearly 5,000 volunteer catechists who teach the Catholic faith to over 40,000 children and young people enrolled in our parish religious education programs.
Dozens of students, professors, staff, chaplains and friends of Marymount University in Arlington gathered in the chapel of the new Ballston campus Sept. 13 for the dedication of the altar.
Awkward romantic comedy about an earnest young priest (Zachary Spicer), already undergoing a crisis of faith, who finds himself in turmoil after a vaguely bohemian and religiously indifferent coffee house singer (Wrenn Schmidt) appears in the confessional claiming she is terminally ill and seeking not absolution in preparation for death but funeral arrangement advice. The unlikely pair embarks on a friendship made tense by mutual attraction, a relationship that eventually forces the cleric to reassess his commitment to the church.
Set in a small Maine town in the late 1980s, this horror adaptation finds an ensemble of kids (most prominently Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis and Jeremy Ray Taylor) being preyed on by a demonic clown (Bill Skarsgard) and by other manifestations of evil.
Deborah Moggach's 1999 novel is the basis for this period drama set in 17th-century Amsterdam, directed by Justin Chadwick. The abbess (Judi Dench) of a convent arranges a marriage between a young orphan (Alicia Vikander) and a wealthy merchant (Christoph Waltz), eager for a son and heir.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Carmelite Sister Margaret Ann Laechelin saw a motorist struggling to navigate a road obstructed by a fallen tree and worried for the safety of others. A video of her with a chainsaw, clearing the tree, went viral.
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