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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 […]
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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
At the end of this school year, the last Holy Cross sisters teaching in Virginia will retire. It’s difficult to quantify how many thousands of lives the sisters have touched since they began teaching in Alexandria a few years after the Civil War ended. They founded a girls’ school, St. Mary’s Academy, which closed in 1990; […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
The artistic and musical talents of students at Corpus Christi School in Falls Church were on full display May 19 at the school’s fifth annual “Night of the Arts.” Art teacher Tikia Bonner coordinated the display of student art, while band director Joe Morton led his talented musicians in a litany of crowd favorites, such […]
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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
At the end of this school year, Sisters of the Holy Cross Anne Tardiff and Elizabeth Rossetti will retire after six decades in Catholic education. But when the sisters leave Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, it will also mark the end of another era: the Holy Cross Sisters’ service in Virginia Catholic schools, where […]
Columns
By Peter Finney Jr.
NEW ORLEANS – The idea of making a walking pilgrimage in the United States took root about four years ago when Dominican Fathers Francis Orozco and Thomas Schaefgen were studying together for the priesthood. They saw the movie, “The Way,” featuring Martin Sheen, who portrayed a father honoring his late son’s memory by completing the […]
Arts
By Christina Lee Knauss
ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. – For years, Matthew Quay picked up paper clips from desks and absent-mindedly straightened them while listening to discussions or presentations at work. He also carried some in his pockets to straighten during Mass at Holy Trinity Church in Orangeburg. It was simply something to do with his hands to help him […]
Schools
By Ladan Nemati
Sophomores from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington had the opportunity to “retreat” from their daily, fast-paced lives and enter more closely into a world with Christ. This year’s class retreat was centered on the importance of being stewards and serving others. The April 12 retreat started off with a simulation of how Jesus washed […]
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