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By Dennis Sadowski
AMHERST, Ohio – The foot-tapping melodies of Polish-style polka music that greets patrons as they enter the Kiedrowski family’s bake shop says that old-world hospitality is at hand. The upbeat music, owner Tim Kiedrowski says, is meant to evoke the memories of traditional food, family customs and church life. And in the days before Lent, […]
Schools
Paul VI High School in Fairfax scored big over Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria 83-54. The game was played in Alexandria Jan. 31.
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
In one of his informative dispatches from Rome during the Synod on the Family last fall, Robert Royal remarked with regret on the extent to which the synod fathers appeared to have taken their prescriptions for families from a secular playbook instead of from their own Catholic tradition. Most synod participants, Royal wrote, “seemed to […]
Arts
By Nora Hamerman
The very name of Jesus Christ reveals the dual environment into which Our Savior was born in Roman-ruled Judea around, as scholars now believe, between 6 and 4 B.C. Jesus is a Jewish name, and Christ (the anointed one) is Greek. The Christian order gradually, over centuries, came to replace the Greco-Roman one. No one […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Church in Annandale welcomed Bishop Kurt R. Burnette from the Eparchy (Diocese) of Passaic, N.J., Jan. 30 as he ordained a local man to the priesthood. Deacon Lewis Michael Rabayda was born in Summit Hill, Pa., in 1983. After graduating from the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, he came […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Local
An ecumenical gathering took place at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
The quiet of an Alexandria neighborhood was interrupted by the sound of a bell ringing from the top of the Mary, Mother of the Church Monastery of the Poor Clares Jan. 26. The sound signaled the beginning of a wonderful and unusual liturgical event and served as an invitation to all to join the celebration. […]
