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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. Today I was chatting with a friend who is a Buddhist. She does not have a deep knowledge of the Bible and she talked about Mary Magdalene as a great sinner and former prostitute who developed a romantic relationship with Jesus. I wanted to correct her, but I couldn’t find the right words. Can […]
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By Katie Scott
“As I stared at her, Charles talked to her. We unwrapped her and looked at her face and counted her fingers and toes just like anyone would do with a newborn. But unlike most newborns, she didn’t cry.” Mary McCarthy Hines, a parishioner of St. Raymond of Peñafort Church in Springfield, and her husband, Charles, […]
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By Katie Scott
When Kara Palladino lost a child through miscarriage about a year ago, she knew she wanted to bury the baby in a way that honored her Catholic faith. But after calling a long list of funeral homes and cemeteries, she couldn’t find any with a plan in place to bury and memorialize an infant lost […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – For a spiritual leader who denounces a world divided by walls, a church shuttered by cliques and hearts hardened to compassion, opening wide the Holy Door for the Year of Mercy will be a significant and symbolic moment for Pope Francis. In Catholic tradition, the Holy Door represents the passage to salvation […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Spiritan Father Leonard J. Tuozzolo, former pastor of Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church in Arlington, died Nov. 5 at Libermann Hall in Bethel Park, Pa. He was 83 years old. Affectionately known by many as “Father Tuz,” the priest “was very open to other people and to those who were on the margins,” said […]
Schools
Nine seniors from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington signed letters of intent to play sports in college. They include: Ako Adams, basketball, Rice University; Janiya Clemmons, basketball, Columbia University; Randall Gaskins, basketball, St. Francis University; Olivia Giaquinto, softball, Harvard University; Alicia Gonzales, basketball, Case Western Reserve University; Austin Kunde, baseball, Virginia Military Institute; Patrick […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Zoey R. Di Mauro is the Catholic Herald’s newest staff writer. Di Mauro is a 2010 graduate of Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax and a 2014 graduate of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, where she majored in English. She spent a semester abroad at the Universidad de Pablo Olavide in […]
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By For The Catholic Herald
Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax defeated Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington in the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association boys soccer championship Nov. 14 at Sports Backers Stadium in Richmond. The Panthers, seeded No. 7, played the top-seeded Knights to a 0-0 tie through the end of the second overtime period. Paul VI […]
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By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
The apocalyptic words of Jesus we hear and pray this Sunday are words He spoke to the disciples. Of course, Catholic Herald readers and other disciples of Jesus are called to pay more attention to the goodness and love of Jesus than to the sins and failings of their fellow readers, their fellow disciples. If […]
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