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By Stacy Rausch
“We heard perhaps a call for doing something different. To bring to the world a different way of living and being that is enshrined in love and service. Each one of us received some kind of call, and we all responded,” said Father David L. Martin, pastor of St. Luke Church in McLean during his […]
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By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. I have a personal problem with the Fourth Commandment. It reads that we should honor our father and mother, but my own father is not an honorable man. He has always been a self-centered person who puts his own needs above everyone else’s. Right now he is elderly and sick with stage 4 cancer. […]
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June 13, 1989 – Deacon Jerome P. Knight June 15, 1990 – Msgr. Justin D. McClunn June 21, 1996 – Deacon Francis A. Appel June 23, 1984 – Father Thomas F. Egan June 24, 2011 – Deacon Robert J. Curtin
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By Bill Dodds
“What time is it really?” That’s what our son, Thomas, wanted to know on a road trip across the United States back in 1989. We crossed an invisible line, and suddenly we were in a different time zone, asking “but what time is it really?” I remember when the kids were even younger and a […]
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By Soren Johnson
Men repair stuff. I know – I’m resorting to stereotypes. But I don’t know any guys who find happiness by waking up day after day to a bunch of broken things. And yet, according to a friend of mine who oversees facilities for several dozen (yes, I said “dozen”) buildings, we are witnessing a crisis […]
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Father Robert C. Cilinski, pastor of Church of the Nativity in Burke, officially concluded the parish’s 2015 Operation Starfish campaign by presenting a check to Food For The Poor CEO/President Robin Mahfood May 28. The donation will be used to continue the development of Good Shepherd Village near Grand Boulage, Haiti. The village is named […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Sii” (Praised Be), a line from St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Creatures,” will be released June 18, the Vatican press office announced. “The date foreseen for the publication of the encyclical of the pope is Thursday, June 18,” said the statement released June 4. […]
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By Marie Elena Giossi | Catholic News Service
JAMAICA, N.Y. – Pope Francis has appointed Passionist Father Emery Kibal Mansong’loo, who currently resides in the Brooklyn Diocese, as the new bishop of the Diocese of Kole in Congo in central Africa. Bishop-designate Kibal, named the fourth bishop of Kole, is a former provincial superior of the Passionist Fathers in Congo. He has been […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Paul VI Catholic High School will relocate from its current 18-acre campus in Fairfax City to a 68-acre property 12 miles west in South Riding, according to an announcement this week by the Arlington Diocese.The projected opening of Paul VI’s new Loudoun County campus in 2020 will ensure the high school has a facility that […]
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By Russell Shaw
The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States. As predicted, it isn’t – thank God – bloody persecution like the persecution of Christians in many countries. But it’s real persecution and likely to get worse. This new persecution currently has two prongs. One consists of […]
