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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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By Ashleigh Buyers
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori will lay his hands on the heads of two men during the ordination ceremony at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington June 4 at 11 a.m. The archbishop, who is substituting for Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde, will ordain Jordan Willard and Stephen Vaccaro to the diaconate. Their […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Staci Perry bakes like she lives. She doesn’t measure. She works with what’s already in the fridge. And she scrapes every last bit out of the bowl. “I don’t do anything fancy,” she says, sitting in the kitchen of her century-old farmhouse two miles north of Verdi, a tiny, windswept town by the Minnesota-South Dakota […]
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Franciscan Father Kevin J. Downey, a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Name Province, has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation of an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a male minor in 1990 in another state. The investigation is in its early phases and no final determination has been made regarding the […]
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By Russell Shaw
It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in her autobiography The Long Loneliness, she described it like this: “The smell from the tenements, coming up from basements and […]
Schools
When: Tuesday, June 7 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington Baccalaureate Mass: June 6 at St. Bernadette Church, 7600 Old Keene Mill Road, Springfield, at 7 p.m. Total Graduates: 202 Graduates Include: Cameron Jared Abell, Ryan Christopher Allard, Isabel Kemp Anderson, Mary Kay […]
Schools
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
According to the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools, the following people will retire at the end of this school year (diocesan years of service are indicated): Bishop Ireton High School, Alexandria: Sr. Elizabeth Rossetti (42 years); Robert Storch (23 years); Sr. Anne Tardiff (50 years) Bishop O’Connell High School, Arlington: James Hayes (41 years); Valarie […]
Schools
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Fifteen graduating seniors from four Arlington diocesan high schools will attend military academies this fall. Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington has three students who will attend military academies. Gabriella Baltimore will attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.; Briana Broccoli will attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Great Neck, N.Y.; and Michael […]
Schools
When: Monday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. Where: All Saints Church, 9300 Stonewall Road, Manassas Baccalaureate Mass: preceding graduation Total Graduates: 68 Graduation Speaker: Marcus Daly Graduates include: William Arnold, Madeleine Atkinson, Matthew Bartolozzi, Caelan Burgess, Stephen Byers, Haley Cackett, Mary Camarca, Jillian Ceol, Dominic Ciaverella, Samuel Cobb, Theresa Cook, Tim Costello, Mary Cuccinelli, Johanna […]
‘Blessed are those who mourn’