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The real-life events that helped inspire Herman Melville’s classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick become the basis for a polished and exciting adventure directed by Ron Howard. As the novelist (Ben Whishaw) interviews the last survivor (Brendan Gleeson) of an ill-fated 1820 whaling expedition out of Nantucket, Massachusetts, the old salt (played in youth by Tom Holland) […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
In April, Pope Francis declared that a Jubilee Year of Mercy be observed from the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, to the solemnity of Christ the King, Nov. 20, 2016. The pope opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome Dec. 8, and Dec. 13 he opened the Holy Door of […]
Local
By Sarah Rushforth
Students of Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria welcomed author John Bul Dau last month to speak on his book, God Grew Tired of Us. The work is an autobiography recounting Dau’s trek across Ethiopia and Kenya with a band of other children following the onset of Sudan’s civil war in 1987. Dau’s visit was […]
Local
By Katie Scott
Nearly record-setting high temperatures Dec. 12 made for a sunshine-cloaked Nativity scene outside St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. At one of the Christmas Eve vigil Masses, Fr. Gerald Weymes, pastor, will place the missing centerpiece – the Infant Jesus – onto the white blanket.
Local
By Katie Scott
The comfort of solidarity amid pain and the peace of encountering Christ’s grace were the focus of the first Arlington diocesan Mass for families suffering from infertility, infant loss and miscarriage Dec. 12 at St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. “We remember in our pain that Jesus walks every day of our lives with us, in […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
Mary Susan Burnett-Miller was reading a laundromat magazine while on vacation when she first learned about organizations like Laundry Love. Years prior in Ventura, Calif., a group of people asked a homeless man named T-Bone how they could serve him. “If I had clean clothes I think people would treat me like a human being,” […]
National
By Richard Szczepanowski
UNION BRIDGE, Md. – Retail experts call the growing popularity of cut-your-own Christmas trees “consumer engagement,” but Michael Ryan, owner and operator of Clemsonville Christmas tree farm in Union Bridge, calls it “part of a fun-filled memorable experience.” An increase in the popularity of artificial trees over live trees several decades ago has leveled off […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. What is the Christian response to ISIS? (Harrisonburg, Va.) A. The Christian response to ISIS is to deplore their violence and to seek the most effective means to stop it. In March 2015, in what was seen as an unusually blunt endorsement of military action, the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
The pink candle has been lit. The pace quickens as we move closer to the feast. Christmas is coming – oh, the joy. Except when the rose vestments sometimes just serve as a painful reminder that we are supposed to feel joy, but we don’t. Not only are we fighting from within to feel something […]
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