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Christendom College in Front Royal has hired Patrick Quest (Christendom ’08) as athletic director. Quest will oversee all intercollegiate and club sports teams and athletic events. “It’s great to welcome Patrick Quest back to Christendom,” said Chris Vander Woude, dean of student life. “The experience and enthusiasm that Patrick brings to the position will be […]
Movies
Based on the second novel in James Dashner’s sci-fi trilogy, this ponderous sequel to 2014’s “The Maze Runner” follows the further exploits of a band of intrepid teens (led by Dylan O’Brien) navigating a dystopian world. The challenges they face include the machinations of evil adults (typified by Patricia Clarkson) and the consequences of a […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – Cooking for 1,900 people, no problem. Cooking for the pope? Now that requires extra care. Chefs Michael McDonald and Irshaad Ellis-Bey say they are up to the challenge. Both men are heading the effort of the Washington Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities Enterprises catering service in preparing a meal for 500 guests, including Pope Francis, […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
SANTIAGO, Cuba – A key task of a traveling pope is to confirm his brothers and sisters in the faith. For Pope Francis in Cuba, that ministry took on added importance as Cuba and its people stand on the threshold of potentially epochal change. Many people inside and outside Cuba hope that normalized U.S.-Cuban relations […]
Movies
Honorable but slack drama, based on real events, in which an escaped prisoner (David Oyelowo) on a murderous rampage takes a drug-addicted diner waitress (Kate Mara) hostage in her home. As the already fragile woman struggles to stay alive, she reads sections of Rick Warren’s self-help best-seller, The Purpose Driven Life, to her captor, hoping […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – Acknowledging the real challenges and burdens the U.S. bishops face in their ministry, Pope Francis shared with them his own experience as a pastor and urged them to keep their eyes focused on Jesus and their hearts open to others. “Woe to us,” he said, “if we make of the cross a banner […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
WASHINGTON – Canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary, Blessed Junipero Serra, Pope Francis insisted a person’s faith is alive only when it is shared. Celebrating a late afternoon Mass outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Sept. 23, the pope declared the holiness of St. Junipero, founder of a string of missions […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
“Is it not enough,” she asked me earnestly, “to be a woman at home, caring for a family? Everyone around me has a job that enables her to contribute to her family financially. Even within the church, I’m bombarded every day with clarion calls to do more, to give more. And here I am doing […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
There is a place where the drone of traffic turns to the sound of birds and the tops of buildings are replaced by the peaks of the Blue Ridge. It is in Clarke County that the Trappist monks of Holy Cross Abbey have made their home for more than six decades. Time has not dulled […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
Pilgrims visiting the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington soon will be welcomed by the beautiful new Redemptor Hominis Chapel. Cradled in the heart of the shrine, the chapel will feature a magnificent display of mosaic sacred art. World renowned mosaicist, Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik was commissioned by the Knights of Columbus to […]
