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By Maureen Boyle
WASHINGTON — Looking back on the moment she knelt before the altar of the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, Conn., to profess her perpetual vows as a Sister of Life, Sister Grace Dominic said it didn’t feel like the end of an eight-year path of discernment, through postulancy and novitiate. Rather, […]
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By Connor Bergeron
The works of Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms provide a tasty tribute in a performance by the National Chamber Ensemble. The National Chamber Ensemble presented A Night in Vienna, a one-night performance, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum, which featured works of Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre in Arlington […]
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By Connor Bergeron
Each year the Arlington Diocese creates a poster with photos of diocesan seminarians. Below each face is the name, level of education, school and parish. It’s great to recognize faces from our parishes, but often people don’t fully understand the terminology. The graphic (below) illustrates the stages of formation for diocesan priests. Of the 43 […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
With the occasionally crisp, subtle coolness of September in Virginia, my pace usually quickens just a bit in expectant hope. September brings order — the order of days that follow along the tracks of a schedule, the order of deadlines and appointments written in ink. I love order; it gives me a sense of security. […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
It happened for the first time almost exactly to the minute, 28 years from the moment my first baby was born. That morning, I didn’t have to silence the voice. For the entire span of a childhood and then some, the voice has been telling me the same lie over and over again. But the […]
Movies
A prominent attempt to erase one of history’s most notorious genocides — and the possible strategies for defeating that effort — are explored in this morally powerful fact-based drama. Director Mick Jackson recounts the case for libel initiated in 1996 by British writer David Irving (Timothy Spall) against American historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) after […]
Movies
The language-fracturing violence-threatening moral force in a muumuu (played, of course, by writer-director Tyler Perry) still gives out with the bickering and the lightning-fast asides. But Perry’s script gives her little to do other than mingle with college students and trash-talk with her elderly friends. The hammer-wielding harridan tries, unsuccessfully, to prevent the 17-year-old niece […]
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Absurdly convoluted and morally bankrupt action-drama about an autistic man (Ben Affleck) with an innate genius for crunching numbers and the learned ability to kill with brutal precision. After years working as a forensic accountant for criminal enterprises worldwide, the deeply flawed protagonist takes on a legitimate client; in the process, he meets a young […]
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By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service
ROME — The number of migrants and refugees who have died while making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean is expected to reach an all-time high in 2016, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency. The 3,740 lives lost so far in 2016 “is the worst we have seen,” William Spindler, agency spokesman, said Oct. 25 […]
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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
The newly restored 14th-century wooden crucified Christ “has been resurrected” from obscurity — once caked over with dark paint and left forgotten behind an elevator shaft.
