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By Cindy Wooden
ROME – Thousands of permanent deacons and their wives began their Year of Mercy celebration by cutting straight to the heart of what it means to be a deacon, how the ministry impacts their families and the challenge of explaining their vocation to others, including bishops and priests. The pilgrims divided into language groups and […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – When then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger met the press in 2000 for the formal release of the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, he said he knew many people would be disappointed. Almost 16 years later, at the beginning of a yearlong preparation for the 100th anniversary of the apparition of our Lady of Fatima […]
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By Cindy Wooden
ROME – A Corpus Christi procession should honor Christ’s gift of Himself in the Eucharist, but also should be a pledge to share bread and faith with the people of the cities and towns where the processions take place, Pope Francis said. Just as the “breaking of the bread” became the icon of the early […]
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Read the story about the New transitional deacons featured in the Arlington Catholic Herald.
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By Dave Borowski
After a drizzly morning, the sun came out and the temperature rose in time for the annual Memorial Day Mass May 30 at Fairfax Memorial Park. The Mass was celebrated by Father John M. O’Donohue, pastor of Holy Spirit Church in Annandale. He was assisted by Deacon Nicholas J. LaDuca, who served as homilist. In […]
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By Dave Borowski
The moveable feast of Corpus Christi, officially known as the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, was instituted by Pope Urban IV in 1264 and is a public acknowledgement of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The official day of the feast is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, most […]
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The 22nd annual Youth Apostles Institute Pro-life Essay Contest with the theme, “Message to an Expectant Mother,” has selected its winners. Participants were tasked with writing a message to an expectant mother, and their entries demonstrated an appreciation for the sanctity of unborn human life as well as the necessity for sensitivity toward women in […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Shortly after her husband was drafted into the military, Stella Garcia helped pack up their little family and move to Northern Virginia. They arrived from Texas Sept. 18, 1950, a day she still remembers well. Over the next 66 years, Garcia and her family made their home in the soon-to-be created Arlington Diocese. Garcia is […]
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The heroine of this forced, mechanical follow-up to Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” (2010) is not Lewis Carroll’s curious 7-year-old girl but rather an intrepid sea captain with an entrepreneurial streak who refuses to bend to the will of a patriarchal society. Fueled by empathy and an appetite for risk, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) travels back […]
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Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax plans to launch a girls field hockey team beginning fall 2016 in anticipation of more field space as the school plans its move to Loudoun County. For the short term, the new team will be a one-level club group and will compete against Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and […]
