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By Katie Scott
While local governments scrambled to dig out streets and sidewalks from the massive Jan. 22-23 East Coast snowstorm, students celebrated the storm dubbed “Snowzilla” by swapping classes for snowballs, movies and hot cocoa. Most diocesan schools were closed the entire week following the blizzard, which brought as much as three feet of snow to the […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
On the fifth day home with five young kids five miles down an unplowed gravel road, something broke. Gratefully, it wasn’t my psyche. Or my back from shoveling. We did enjoy some Norman Rockwellian family moments, but in the escalating number of school cancellations, kid-versus-kid skirmishes, garbage bags stacked near the back door, angstyness, etc., […]
Local
By Katie Scott
They regularly play toe-tapping tunes for the president, vice president and secretary of the Navy, but Feb. 1 the U.S. Navy Band Country Current brought its country-bluegrass lineup to students at St. Andrew the Apostle School in Clifton. The mini concert was held in the parish hall and kicked off Catholic Schools Week. “It’s a […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will not be an actor in a proposed movie based on the Gospels, a Vatican spokesman said. While details about how the pope may or may not be involved in the movie project are not yet known, it was clear the pope was not an actor and would not have […]
Local
An ecumenical gathering took place at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Schools
By Michaela Reyes
Seton School in Manassas held its ninth annual Murder Mystery Dinner Jan. 30. Attendees filled the junior high building with accusations and clues, and finally a murderer was revealed. The event was started by Seton’s Literary Arts Club in 2007. The first dinner was held in the home of the club’s president, and it has […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – More than 1,000 “missionaries of mercy” from all over the world will receive a special mandate from Pope Francis to preach and teach about God’s mercy, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella. About 700 of the missionaries who were chosen by Pope Francis will be in Rome to receive their special mandate in person […]
Global
By Simone Orendain
CEBU, Philippines – Maria Georgia “Maggie” Cogtas of Cebu told of a childhood without playing, only tough work as a garbage picker at dumpsites, construction sites and on the streets. Cogtas, 21, also told more than 12,000 people at the 51st International Eucharistic Congress about the massive celebration two weeks ago commemorating the Child Jesus, […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. Regarding your recent column on forgiving ISIS: Must forgiveness be predicated on remorse and repentance by the offending party? I am thinking of Christ being crucified and saying, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing” – or St. Stephen forgiving those who had stoned him. (Greenwich, Conn.) Q. Jesus said […]
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