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George Mason University students and alumni welcomed Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge to the campus ministry’s weekly supper social in Fairfax Feb. 23. The Philadelphia native enjoyed mingling with the students and exchanging some friendly banter with Philadelphia Eagles and Redskins fans during his first visit to the ministry.
Visitors to Marymount University in Arlington came face to face with the portraits of youths living as undocumented immigrants in the United States in a new photo exhibit titled “Youth Seeking Refuge, Unaccompanied.” The exhibit, which is scheduled to run through March 26 in the university’s Barry Gallery, captures the lives of youths caught between violence at home and an ongoing debate on immigration reform.
i>Following is a report from the Virginia Catholic Conference./i>br />The 2017 session of the Virginia General Assembly drew to a close after an intense month and a half. The General Assembly considered nearly 3,000 bills. Virginia Catholic Conference staff met with legislators, testified at innumerable hearings, and spread action alerts through our grassroots network and on social media.
The newly elected Abbot Joseph Wittstock left his home country of South Africa to pursue the monastic life. For the past 16 years he has lived, worked and prayed in community with the Trappist monks of Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville. He understands his new position as the next step in his journey toward sanctification.
The diocesan Spanish Apostolate hosted its Fifth Couple's Encounter, "Jesus the Joy of Love," for couples married, engaged and dating.
Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge will celebrate a special Mass and Anointing of the Sick March 18 at St. Ambrose Church
The March for Life receives its largest donation from the Knights of Columbus' bucket collection.
People who don't give money to the homeless because they think it will be spent on alcohol and not food should ask themselves what guilty pleasures they are secretly spending money on, Pope Francis said.
