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The first week of school ended on a charitable note when students from All Saints School in Manassas presented Father Keith O’Hare, a priest serving at the Banica mission in the Dominican Republic,with a check for $6,000 to build a new house for a family in need. The students raise the money from school dress […]
The Tuesday before school started, the washing machine quit. Just like that, it went ominously silent —halfway through a big load.    Older than many of my colleagues and twice as old as my marriage, I think the washer dates to the era of Ronald Reagan’s first term.   And I was not ready for […]
In the days after getting engaged to the love of her life, blogger and author Stephanie Calis realized that she knew next to nothing about how to get married in the Catholic Church. “It all just seemed veiled in mystery,” said Calis. “There was no resource telling me what needed to be done.” But by […]
Dominique Murray has always felt drawn to God through her eyes. In her youth, she was attracted to beautiful old cathedrals in her native Montreal. She came to appreciate art through her mother, who enrolled her in art classes and who herself was a talented woodworker, floral arranger and maker of stained glass windows. As […]
Every part of a well-designed church is deliberately planned to bring glory to God — the shape, the artwork, the liturgical furnishings and everything in between. This series aims to explain the art and architecture of diocesan churches, so the faithful can better appreciate the beauty around them. The main altar at St. Peter’s Basilica […]
If this presidential campaign isn’t the strangest race for the White House ever, it will do until a stranger one comes along — and I’m in no hurry for that. With good reason, many Americans are asking what went wrong with the system that it should have come to this. The question needs an answer […]

The morning of Aug. 29 shown brightly with the morning sun and happy smiles of students as they strode to the open doors of St. Leo the Great School in Fairfax. 

Father Dominic P. Irace, former rector of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, died Sept. 1 at his home in Florida from complications from diabetes. He was 73. A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 6 at St. Therese of Lisieux Church in Wellington, Fla., followed by burial at Our Lady, Queen of Peace […]

If you walk down the halls at Church of the Nativity in Burke and meander in the direction of the youth ministry offices, chances are you will hear Ingrid Sánchez-Seymour before you see her. The self-described extrovert loves people and sharing her Catholic faith. She has traveled far and wide and has learned multiple languages just to talk to as many people as she can. But even though she has seen a good bit of the world, one of her favorite places is Nativity's youth group activity room. The room, painted yellow, her favorite color, is nicknamed “the well.” The name comes from the Gospel account of Jesus's conversation at the well with the Samaritan women.

Fr. McAfee remembers the effect of a homily he gave after Sept. 11 

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