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By Jessica Marsala
Sts. Denis, Dunstan and Joan of Arc walk into a corn maze. If you thought that this was going to be the beginning of a joke, you’d be wrong. Twenty-six teens, many of them dressed as a saint or saint-to-be, gathered at the Cows-N-Corn dairy farm in Midland Oct. 30 for the third Saint Maze […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
I live my life in narrative. I love stories; they were the stuff and substance of my childhood, the things that framed my paradigm and gave shape to my dreams. Inside my head, there’s always a story going. Often the stories beg to be tapped out onto the pages of my blog or this column […]
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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, will speak on marriage and religious liberty in America Nov. 19 at St. Raymond of Peñafort Church, 8750 Pohick Rd., Springfield, at 7:30 p.m. Since taking the helm of the archdiocese, he has been […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
The sound of clarinets and flutes, violins and violas could be heard from the Bishop O’Connell High School auditorium in Arlington Oct. 31, as more than 80 students prepared for the first Diocesan Honors Music Festival. While there are a number of honors festivals in the area, this festival was the first of its kind […]
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By Soren Johnson
One spring day in 1976, Henrietta Van Der Molen woke in her suburb of Chicago to find herself a widow. Her husband of nearly 40 years was dead of a heart attack at the age of 59. What Henrietta did next merits study in our “Age of the Selfie,” our culture of the “Big Me.” […]
Global
By David Agren
MEXICO CITY – Pope Francis will visit Mexico in February, marking the pontiff’s first trip to the heavily Catholic country, said Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City. Cardinal Rivera revealed Pope Francis would arrive in Mexico Feb. 12 during a homily Nov. 1, but he offered no other information on itineraries or the length […]
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Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington received a contribution of $20,000 from Porto Charities Oct. 27 to support its new program of expanded services for students with intellectual disabilities. “We are extremely grateful for the support of Porto Charities,” said Head of School Joseph Vorbach. “This grant helps us build a strong instructional and programmatic […]
Schools
By The Literary Arts Club
Going door to door with the typical refrain, “trick or treat” is a Halloween have-to for American youths. However, students in chorus and band from Seton School in Manassas found recently that if one brings the cookies, a band instrument and an able singing voice, he might find something more rewarding in the end than […]
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As part of their mission to support vocations, members of the Serra Club of Arlington visited seminarians at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 16-18. During their visit, Serrans learned about seminary life and listened to vocation testimonials and a presentation on recently canonized St. Junípero Serra. They shared meals with the seminarians […]
Movies
Lively profile of the computer pioneer and Apple co-founder (Michael Fassbender) who died in 2011 at 56. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uses three landmark product launches over 14 years to trace Jobs’ rise, fall and return as the company’s guiding light, and to chart his fraught professional relationships with his long-suffering gal Friday, Joanna Hoffman (Kate […]
