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By Katie Scott
The football program at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington will withdraw from the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and play an independent schedule beginning in the fall of 2016, according to Head of School Joseph Vorbach. A WCAC member since 1993, O’Connell is the third and final diocesan high school football program to depart the […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – On a cloudy, damp morning, Pope Francis’ voice echoed in the atrium of St. Peter’s Basilica: “Open the gates of justice.” With five strong thrusts, the pope pushed open the Holy Door, a symbol of God’s justice, which he said will always be exercised “in the light of his mercy.” The rite […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
The Christians of first-century Corinth must have been a rowdy lot. St. Paul, writing to these converts, chided them for their less-than-edifying manner of celebrating the Eucharist and added a stern warning: “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body […]
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By Bill Dodds
“You were so good at making pies!” my mother said to her childhood friend who was visiting our family. “I can’t make pies.” “Oh, pies are easy,” the other woman answered and her face lit up as she explained the secrets to a flaky crust. Both women were in their mid-70s, and as they shared […]
Schools
By Matt Brown and Maggine Cornejo
To help serve the thousands of families who go hungry every year in Fairfax County, students at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax recently hosted the annual canned food drive in support of Food for Others, an organization dedicated to forwarding free food donations to local families in need. “I love being a part […]
Local
By Maureen Pratt
Usually, people delivering cautionary news begin with, “Are you sitting down?” For the topic of this column, I’ll turn it around: “How often do you stand up? Or walk? Or do something besides sit?” My question is prompted by a newspaper headline from The Independent in the United Kingdom that read: “Each hour of sitting […]
Columns
By Beth Griffin
RYE, N.Y. – The secular world ignores Advent, begins celebrating Christmas the day after Halloween and packs up the holiday before the New Year, Paul J. Murray said. The director of music at a midtown Manhattan parish thought the Advent message was getting drowned out by the noise of commercialism, so he decided to make […]
National
By Beth Griffin
MARYKNOLL, N.Y. – Thirty-five years after they were murdered in El Salvador, four American churchwomen were remembered in their own eerily prescient and profoundly moving words. Colleagues and successors of the women gathered Dec. 2 for a vespers service at the headquarters of the Maryknoll Sisters. On Dec. 2, 1980, Salvadoran National Guardsman abducted, raped […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
Sister Marie Angela Natoli, 87, former general superior of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died Nov. 13 at Camilla Hall Nursing Home in Immaculata, Pa. Sister Marie Angela was born in Reading, Pa., the second of five children of Thomas J. and Mariana Stella Natoli. She pursued undergraduate studies at Immaculata […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – When Pope Francis planned the Year of Mercy and the opening of the Holy Door, he did not mean to give the starting signal for a frenzied wave of pilgrims to Rome. More than a call to sign up for an Eternal City package tour, the pope is inviting people to strike […]
