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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 […]
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
Melina Birchem has uploaded 777 images to her Instagram account over the past two years: sushi, Starbucks, her new tattoo, rosary beads, cowboy boots. Sometimes the juxtaposition is jarring. A glowing monstrance, a chilled margarita. A snapshot from waitressing, a prayer journal documenting her consecration to the Blessed Mother. As a freshman at the University […]
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., […]
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By Brian Williams
RICHMOND – The Virginia Catholic Conference is urging the General Assembly to pass legislation to protect individuals and groups that have religious objections to same-sex marriage. Jeff Caruso, executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference, stood with lawmakers Jan. 25 as they discussed various bills they said would ensure religious freedom. The measures included House […]
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 […]
The birth of a vocation