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By Zoey Dimauro
After eight years of serving the Arlington Diocese, Superintendent of Schools Sister Bernadette McManigal, B.V.M., has announced her retirement, and the search for her replacement has begun. Dan Curtin, diocesan consultant for Catholic education, has been asked by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde to spearhead the effort. But before he combs through resumes, he and […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
Poor Clare Sister Mary Clare of Our Lady’s Assumption died Jan. 20 at the age of 86 surrounded by her fellow sisters at the Poor Clare Monastery in Alexandria. After making her religious profession in 1952, Sister Mary Clare spent more than 66 years as a Poor Clare sister in both New Mexico and Virginia. […]
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, […]
Movies
Working from the 2014 book by Mitchell Zuckoff, director Michael Bay offers a gripping account of what happened on the ground when the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of the title was overrun on Sept. 11, 2012, and four American lives, most prominently that of Ambassador Chris Stevens (Matt Letscher), were lost. John Krasinski […]
Movies
In following up on his 2014 comedy, director Tim Story benefits from a script (by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi) that tones down the original’s relentless vulgarity. An elevated vocabulary fails to carry with it a higher quotient of laughs, however. Nor does the second chapter of this odd-couple story pairing a crusty Atlanta cop […]
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 […]
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 For The Catholic Herald
National Catholic Schools Week, which runs this year from Jan. 31 through Feb. 6, is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service” is this year’s theme that schools will observe through Masses, open houses and activities for students, families, parishioners and the community. Daily […]
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, […]
Schools
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Anyone who says Latin is a dead language has probably never met the Certamen team at St. Veronica School in Chantilly. The dedicated group of sixth-, seventh- and eighth- graders travel to competitions around the region where they participate in fast-paced rounds of questions and answers about Roman culture and the Latin language. Sometimes the […]
