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By Brooke Guenther
Backstage at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries there is a low hum of anxious students talking. Shining brass trumpets are taken out of their cases and tap shoes are put on. After Santa hats are distributed, Music Director Kelly Kingett comes back to announce the concert’s start. A final prayer […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Christmas is a reminder that through the birth of Christ, hope and peace are possible and that only through his grace can humanity find peaceful solutions to the world’s most difficult problems, Pope Francis said. “Only God’s mercy can free humanity from the many forms of evil, at times monstrous evil, which […]
Columns
For one day this Advent, Dec. 18, Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville lifted people out of their 21st century lives and took them to ancient Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus. Margi Loesel, Lisa Gogal and Carrie Hall, all friends and parishioners of Holy Trinity, wanted to bring the real meaning of […]
Local
By Katie Scott
“In this jubilee year, may the church echo the word of God that resounds strong and clear as a message and a sign of pardon, strength, aid and love,” writes Pope Francis in “Misericordiae Vultus” (“The Face of Mercy”), which instituted the Holy Year of Mercy. “May she never tire of extending mercy and be […]
Local
By Katie Scott
As the church celebrates the opening of the Year of Mercy and one of the greatest acts of mercy in salvation history – the birth of Christ – the faithful are called to consider more attentively the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. “We have to put mercy before judgment, and in every case God’s […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
New Year’s Resolutions, Inc.-surging in a bull market as I write these words-may appear benign but it propagates a Doctrine which should offend and scandalize every Christian. I should know. I was once a loyal foot soldier, disseminating its pamphlets. I used to be a card-carrying member of the Doctrine and its Party. The Doctrine […]
Columns
By Ashleigh Buyers
Saint Nick himself made a special pre-Christmas appearance at St. John the Evangelist’s annual Breakfast with Santa fundraiser event. But instead of arriving in his bright red sleigh, he arrived in a yellow helicopter, a first in the event’s history. The Air Care four team from Front Royal escorted the “jolly old elf” in their […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Each year, the Arlington County Human Rights Commission presents the James B. Hunter Award to “individuals, community groups, nonprofit organizations and business establishments that promote cultural diversity and equal rights for all residents.” The award is named for a former Arlington board member who dedicated his life to helping people access government services designed to […]
Local
By Katie Scott
An angel, up past her bedtime, swirled in her Sunday dress as a 6-year-old Wise Man solemnly adjusted his gold paper crown. It was moments before a big event for the smallest students at St. Mary School in Alexandria Dec. 17. Kindergartners and first-graders were about to bring the Christmas story to life in the […]
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