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Post-blizzard snowscapes capture fun, team work in the Arlington Diocese. Related: Storm doesn’t stop Alexandria wedding Roof collapses at Chantilly school Alexandria’s beautiful blizzard
Local
By Stacy Rausch
A snowstorm blanketed Old Town Alexandria in snow the weekend of Jan. 22-23. Following are photos from the aftermath of the storm.
Schools
By Zoey Dimauro
Every spring, the quiet library at Angelus Academy in Springfield becomes a little noisier as dozens of chicks poke out of their shells to the delight of students. For 10 years, librarian Jodi Shlesinger has placed several incubators amidst the books and taught the students how to care for the eggs and then the baby […]
Schools
By Robert Hay
As members of the Arlington Diocese, we are blessed to live in an area with quality choices for our children’s secondary education. With the opening of St. John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries in 2008, there are options and opportunities for rising high schoolers throughout the entire diocese. With this blessing, however, […]
Arts
By Brian Welter
The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ by Brant Pitre. Image Books (New York, 2016). 256 pp. Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero by Dennis R. MacDonald. Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md., 2015). 164 pp. Brant Pitre, a professor of sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, […]
Arts
By Stacy Rausch
Aleona Isakova grew up in Tver, Russia, in a family of atheists. There were no Bibles. There was no way for her to attend church. In 1991, American missionaries came to Russia and introduced her to Jesus. She said this interaction “filled an empty place in my heart when they spoke of God, and brought […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
Decreased vocations and a desire to strengthen community life has led the Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Immaculata, Pa., to end the sisters’ presence at St. Michael School in Annandale. The sisters have taught at St. Michael School for more than 60 years. Currently four sisters live in […]
Schools
By Zoey Dimauro
Kirsten Fedewa fondly remembers the time she spent at St. Mary’s Academy, an all-girls high school now merged with Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria. With two brothers at Ireton, Fedewa made friends with people at both schools. She co-managed the lacrosse team at Ireton, was a varsity cheerleader, and participated in student council and […]
Schools
By Katie Scott
For years, Josie Blessard dreaded school. The soft-spoken teenager has an auditory processing disorder, dyslexia and memory and retention difficulties – a combination of learning disabilities that elicited peers’ taunts in her public school classes. “I had panic attacks and came to school crying,” said Josie. All that changed last fall when she enrolled as […]
Schools
By Dave Borowski
If you have had a child involved in music at any Catholic school in the Arlington Diocese over the past 30 years, you have probably heard the name Garwood Whaley. Whaley, who retired from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria in 2004 after serving as the director of fine arts at the school for 34 […]
