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By Dave Borowski
Craig Spiering learned his craft during a four-year stint in the Navy. He studied photography and photojournalism at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md., and spent his military career photographing Navy operations around the world – much of it on aircraft carriers. For his work, he earned the Joint Services Achievement Medal in […]
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By Kyle Taylor
RICHMOND – Death penalty opponents lost a battle this week when a House committee endorsed a bill to make electrocution the default punishment if lethal injection is unavailable. The Virginia Catholic Conference, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty opposed House Bill 815, which would allow the […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Sometimes a person’s creativity cannot be contained in the confines of a gift registry. It’s important to pick out essential items, like flatware and blenders, but deviations from the list are OK and even welcome. For their wedding, Rita and Peter Gudan decided on a potluck theme. In lieu of gifts, friends and family helped […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
Landon Labuskes, a junior at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, received a perfect score on the College Board’s Advanced Placement AB Calculus exam. Labuskes also is one of only 12 students in the world to earn every point possible on the exam. He took the exam last spring as a sophomore. In a […]
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By Katie Scott
Wedding to-do lists can feel endless and daunting: Nail down a venue, chose the color scheme, select a band. But your officiant – the priest or deacon saying the words of the marriage rite – should “not be like one more thing on a checklist,” said Father Edward J. Bresnahan, in residence at St. Mary […]
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By Katie Scott
On a Saturday evening last winter, 12 students gathered in the Goodson Chapel and Recital Hall at Shenandoah University for an event that was not only sacred but also historic. For the first time in the 140-year history of the Winchester school, there was a Catholic Mass on campus. “To have, in a more secular […]
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By Mike Flach
A group of Christian businesspersons learned how to bring God into the marketplace during a breakfast seminar sponsored by Christians in Commerce. The event, themed “Doing the Right Thing in Business and Government,” was held Feb. 2 at Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant in Tysons Corner. The keynote speakers were Mark D. Lytle, assistant U.S. attorney […]
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By Mike Flach
The Old Testament Prophet Isaiah wrote in last weekend’s first reading, “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?’ ‘Here I am,’ I said. ‘Send me!'” Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde expanded on Isaiah’s theme in his homily during the closing Mass for the Year […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Each memento in Rae and Bill Phillips’ Arlington apartment tells the story of their 71 years together. A picture from their wedding day hangs above a bowl of candy by their open front door. Near the photo sits their wedding cake topper, a figurine of a woman in a white dress and a man in […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
Boys in every color kerchief, girls in vests covered with badges, fathers in cargo pants and mothers in navy blue polos filled the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington at the annual Scout Mass celebrated by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde Feb. 6. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Trail Life members and American Heritage Girls […]
