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By Mary Beth Bonacci
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: “The President of the United States has announced that, in order to continue receiving federal funds, all public schools must allow boys into the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.” And it’s not even from The Onion. Seriously, I feel like I have stepped through some kind of […]
Schools
By Zoey Dimauro
Sister Mary Jordan Hoover was a principal without a school when she arrived in the Arlington Diocese in June 2007. But for her, planning was one of the most exhilarating parts of helping to create Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries. “A lot of unknowns of the construction project made it […]
Schools
By Katie Scott
Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Bernadette McManigal, diocesan superintendent of schools, knows numbers. Along with her education and theology degrees, she holds a bachelor’s in mathematics and has taken graduate-level math courses. When she retires June 30, her eight-year legacy in the Arlington Diocese also will be reflected partially in figures: Student […]
Schools
By Katie Scott
As Isabel Anderson approached the Ghanaian hospital where she was volunteering, she encountered a woman sobbing because her son had died. Accompanying the mother inside, they found the dead boy in a room full of sick children. “Here (in the United States) his sickness could have been easily treated, but there it was deadly,” said […]
Arts
This summer, John Nothaft, a parishioner of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, will realize his dream to perform cathedral recitals on some of the world’s finest instruments in England. Nothaft graduated from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in May with a degree in organ performance. Through Indiana’s Hutton Honors […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington told 671 graduates of Marymount University in Arlington May 15 that their generation faces great challenges to the idea that we are part of God’s plan and that there is an interaction and interconnectedness to what God asks of us and how we live out our lives. “Jesus came to […]
Schools
By Katie Scott
Mary Byczek walks in between rows of desks at St. Leo the Great School in Fairfax, her voice calm and deliberate and her hands gesturing. She’s giving a brief refresher on pronouns, sprinkling it with anecdotes and examples, while her fifth-graders highlight words on worksheets. When Byczek, 62, stops to ask a question, several arms […]
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By Mike Flach
Although there are two weeks left in the school year, the St. Michael School community bid farewell to the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary May 22 at a reception held in their honor. The religious community has staffed St. Michael School in Annandale since 1954. Earlier this year they announced that they […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
Nate Revor has lived all over the country. With his U.S. Marine Corps father, Mark, and mother, Beth, sister, Megan, and brother, Brian, he’s crisscrossed the United States. He was born in North Carolina where he lived until age 4. He went to pre-school and kindergarten in California, then first- through third-grade at Holy Cross […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
This year’s jubilarians have spent a combined 205 years in service to God. Years of teaching schoolchildren, ministering to the homeless and caring for parishioners. Years following God’s call in various states and foreign lands. In spite of the challenges they faced over the years, the sisters said “yes” to God all over again when […]
