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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 […]
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Trenchant, didactic and profoundly moral drama examining the human cost of the financial crisis that began in 2008. Director Ramin Bahrani, who co-scripted with Amir Naderi, portrays the Faustian bargain struck between two bit players on the Orlando, Florida, real estate scene – one an unemployed construction worker (Andrew Garfield), the other a seemingly pitiless […]
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Outstanding historical drama, set at the height of the Cold War, in which a New York corporate lawyer (Tom Hanks) is given the thankless task of defending an accused KGB agent (Mark Rylance), does so with more doggedness than expected by those who selected him, then becomes involved in the negotiations to swap his client […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Every Sunday, parishioners of St. Bernadette Church in Springfield drop off canned goods at boxes in the church’s vestibule. On Monday morning, volunteers from the parish “Can-a-Week” program collect the bags of food and line them up on the floor of the vestibule for distribution after the 9 a.m. Mass. There are usually three lines […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Lidia Bastianich, even at age 68, is working like crazy. She’s on her fifth public television cooking series, “Lidia’s Kitchen,” and on Dec. 11, will have a Christmas special on PBS. She also has written 13 books – most of them cookbooks – has a line of commercial cookware, separate lines of sauces […]
Local
By Mike Flach
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde was honored Nov. 2 for his 50 years of priestly ministry, including more than 16 years as the shepherd of this diocesan church. The theme of the tribute dinner was “Together, in the Heart of Christ.” The event was held at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church. Father Thomas […]
Local
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 […]
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Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va. blessed the new Catholic Distance University headquarters Oct. 27. CDU moved its administrative offices in September from Hamilton, Va., to Charles Town, W. Va., to make it easier for students to transfer credits and receive degree recognition under a regional accreditation agency. Find out more Go to cdu.edu […]
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 […]
