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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In the second of his “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation center. To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort at the San Carlo Community Feb. 26 with just […]
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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
This year the Catholic Herald turned 40, February is Catholic Press Month and last week we reached 10,000 followers on Twitter. Clearly, it’s time to celebrate. Enter our contest below and on Monday, Feb. 29, we’ll select one lucky winner to take home this Pope Francis plush doll. Be sure to subscribe to our email […]
Local
By Steve Neill
By growing to know more about the person and personality of Jesus, many Christians get involved in work that helps others attain those basic needs – such as food, clothing and shelter – to which every man, woman and child has a right by virtue of being created by God. Richmond Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo […]
Local
Christendom College in Front Royal recently was ranked by news media organization NewsMax No. 2 out of 40 “Best Colleges for Conservative Values” in America. Hillsdale College in Michigan took top honors, and Franciscan University of Steubenville was ranked No. 8. “We’ve been standing for traditional, conservative values since our founding – it’s part of […]
Schools
By Marissa Luna
In 1975, Maura O’Donnell, a student at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, came up with the idea for Superdance, a 12-hour dance marathon to raise money to help find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Maura’s sister, Brenda, had passed away earlier that year from this chronic disease, and she knew the school community wanted […]
Schools
The Office of Catholic Schools will host a Teacher Job Fair March 12 at Paul VI Catholic High School, 10675 Fairfax Blvd., Fairfax, from 9 to 11 a.m. Principals from more than 30 diocesan elementary and high schools will be on hand to talk with prospective teachers about openings for the 2016-17 school year. Representatives […]
National
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – The best way for Catholic colleges to move forward is to look back, said speakers at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. They were not stressing the need to reminisce but instead emphasizing the importance of tapping into the charisms particular to the orders that founded many Catholic […]
Schools
Last month’s Greek Fair at St. Ambrose School in Annandale brought “gods and goddesses” to life. Each sixth-grader chose a Greek deity to research and created a museum display that included a tri-fold board and other props. Students visited the displays and, when they found one they wanted to learn more about, could press a […]
Schools
The annual St. Thomas Aquinas Mass was celebrated recently at Catholic University in Washington by Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education. Dominican Fathers John Langlois and Thomas Petri, both of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, […]
