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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria not only won the 2016 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference lacrosse title, but seven players were named either first or second team all-conference, including player of the year Kelly Larkin. Joining Larkin on the first team were Ireton teammates Margaret Lohrer and Amelia Cole, as well as Hannah Kurisky of […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Now that the dust stirred by publication of Pope Francis’ new document on marriage and the family has started to settle, it’s time for assessments that avoid the overwrought tone of some early responses. Here, then, some preliminary thoughts. Shortly after the document was released, I got a phone call from a reporter in Rome […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q: Recently I attended a youth Mass in another diocese, which was celebrated by an elderly priest, assisted by a deacon. The priest was evidently infirm, and at Communion time, the priest retired to a chair while the Eucharist was distributed by several of the students as well as by the deacon. The deacon, who […]
Local
By Katie Scott
On May 9, for the first time since St. Mark School in Vienna was founded in 2003, students sang, prayed and knelt in the center pews of St. Mark Church during a school Mass. After being named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education last fall, Father Patrick Holroyd, pastor, decided “they’d […]
Local
Local Catholics participated in a procession during the 14th annual Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 7.
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q: I receive, on a daily basis, mailings from multiple religious organizations requesting monetary help. Often they include address labels, holy pictures, prayers cards, etc. I feel guilty just trashing them, so I collect them and when the pile gets big, I mail it to one of the organizations, hoping that they will know how […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
On April 7, 1967, Time magazine’s cover featured a new medical innovation: the birth control pill. The periodical hailed it as a “miraculous tablet … (that) has changed and liberated the sex and family life of a large and still growing segment of the U.S. population.” A year later in Rome, Pope Paul VI issued […]
Schools
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Jeff Nolan, who has spent the past four seasons as the head baseball coach at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax and 14 years total on the Panthers’ coaching staff, told his players that he would be stepping down after the 2016 season. Former Paul VI head baseball coach and current Director of Athletics […]
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By Beth Griffin
NEW YORK – On a drizzly gray morning in early May, the bright kitchen at Visitation Mission on Manhattan’s East Side was filled with the sound of laughter and the inviting aromas of fresh-cut vegetables and baking cookies as postulants and novices of the Sisters of Life prepared food for themselves and their anticipated guests. […]
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By Katie Scott
“Do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your mother?” Our Lady of Guadalupe reportedly spoke these words to St. Juan Diego in 1531, but they remain a powerful reminder that Mary is not only the mother of God but also our spiritual mother who wants the […]
