Search Results
National
By Diane Xavier
AVE MARIA, Fla. – Valeria Tkacik is a standout lacrosse player for Ave Maria University in Florida. By all accounts, she is a leader on and off the field. Tkacik was named to the National Women’s Lacrosse League South Regional Team and is considered a talented athlete who loves playing lacrosse, basketball, golf, track, soccer […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. My husband and I live relatively modestly by American standards, are conscious of the amount of resources we use and tithe 10 percent. However, I realize that even doing so we are still living in extreme luxury compared to most people in the world. In the Gospel, Jesus talks of embracing poverty and leaving […]
Arts
By Christine Stoddard
Singer/songwriter and photographer Namvula Rennie said she was in Zambia for a photography project a few years ago when she met an elderly woman in Lusaka. Living in one of the capital city’s poorest neighborhoods, the woman was caring for nine grandchildren, all of whom had been orphaned. “They sometimes had enough money to buy […]
Schools
By Samuel Sjoberg and Eliana Uriona
Ten students from Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, three chaperones and Father Michael J. R. Kelly, Paul VI chaplain, made a pilgrimage to Philadelphia Sept. 26-27 for Pope Francis’ visit to the World Meeting of Families. “It really stood out to me that so many people, both Catholic and non-Catholic, came out to […]
Local
By Katie Scott
Father John A. Ziegler is pastor of St. Patrick Church in Fredericksburg, but he also knows how to produce a toe-tapping, soul-moving recording. He's created two bluegrass gospel CDs and can be heard strumming his guitar and singing at parish festivals and fundraisers.br />
Local
By Christine Stoddard
When Elizabeth moved with her family to Miami at age 12, her uncle sexually molested her for three years. He volunteered to pick her up from school and watch her while her parents ran errands. When she later told her parents, whom she described as a traditional Cuban couple, they did nothing. Instead of sending […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod 2015, something genuinely new in the life of the church began, and it shouldn’t escape our notice. For the first time in two millennia, an entry in the liturgical books will now read, on the appropriate day, “Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, spouses” – a happy addition […]
Local
Commissioned by Christ held its first fundraising event, “Mission Possible,” at the Old Town Hall in Fairfax Oct. 16. The event drew more than 80 attendees to support CBC’s work, including its 2016 international mission trips. Soren Johnson, special assistant to Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde for evangelization and media, presented the keynote address.
Local
By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Rays of the sunrise broke through the trees as a half-dozen men carefully lifted a heavy glass and gold casket over their heads outside St. Veronica Church in Chantilly Oct. 22. Inside the casket, slowly lowered from a large van, were the relics of 11-year-old St. Maria Goretti, covered with a waxen mask and resting serenely on a red velvet pillow.
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and witnesses in a congressional committee hearing room Oct. 20 were not shown pictures of the vast number of refugees crossing East European borders each day. But there is no shortage of images from daily news reports of the throngs of men, women and children walking along streets, open fields and train […]
