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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q: Please tell me how Catholics justify hospice care, especially withholding food and water from the patient. Doesn’t this starve the patient to death? And doesn’t the heavy medication they use actually cause death? (Illinois) A: Patients are typically admitted into hospice care when curative treatment has been deemed futile and the prognosis is that […]
Movies
A high IQ is not a prerequisite for seeing this dimwitted action comedy, directed and co-written by Rawson Marshall Thurber. Stuck in a mundane job, and with his marriage to the sweetheart (Danielle Nicolet) of his youth on the rocks, an unhappy accountant (Kevin Hart) who was once voted “most likely to succeed” is reluctant […]
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By Russell Shaw
And so, in this exceedingly strange political year, what has become of the Catholic vote? There was a time not so long ago when the actual or anticipated voting behavior of American Catholics was a matter of intense interest to the secular media. Not today. Journalists have virtually ignored the Catholic vote, concentrating instead on […]
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By Dave Borowski
Many of the nearly 30 founding parishioners who returned to St. Ambrose Church in Annandale June 18 for the parish’s 50th anniversary Mass moved slowly, aided by wheelchairs, walkers and canes. When the parish was young, they witnessed their children’s first Communions and weddings. Over 50 years of parish life, they watched their children, grandchildren […]
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By Dave Borowski
It’s not graduation, but kindergarten end-of-year programs are every bit a symbol of change and growth as a high school or college commencement. As with other Arlington diocesan elementary schools, kindergartners from St. Mary School in Alexandria put on a show for their parents June 15. God and country were honored with flags waving, allegiance […]
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By Katie Scott
For years, countless high school and college English students have paused, stunned, at a moment in a Flannery O’Connor short story. “Her cold, precise, brutal style has the shocking power of a blow between the eyes,” a New York Times reporter wrote in 1955. This assessment of O’Connor’s craft is quoted in the first full-length […]
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By Dave Borowski
Bible verses and good wishes are hidden behind the walls of the new Lamb Center in Fairfax. In February, about 100 supporters of the drop-in shelter gathered in 10-degree weather for a beam signing party. They walked through the unfinished shelter in winter coats, grabbed Sharpies and wrote on the bare beams. “Bless all the […]
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Missionhurst Father Andrew Labatorio will present a lecture “Ministry to Haiti” July 11 at St. Ann Parish Hall, 5300 N. 10th St., Arlington, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Pastor of St. Jude Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Father Labatorio will provide a short history of Haiti, its current situation and the role of the church there […]
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By Thomas J. Craughwell
Rome is the city of popes because it was in Rome that St. Peter taught the gospel and it was there that he was martyred in A.D. 67 during Nero’s persecution of the Christians. Our Lord appointed Peter the first pope in the famous scene in St. Matthew’s gospel when Jesus declares, “You are Peter, […]
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