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By Elizabeth Foss
It’s planting time. And growing time. And watering time. But, wait. First, it’s weeding time. Every year, I say I’m going to get after the weeds before it’s a big job, and every year, I don’t. The weeds around the trees are particularly overgrown this spring. They’re woody and tenacious and in need of some […]
Schools
By Paul Fritschner John Paul The Great Student Correspondent
After years of hard work, countless miles logged, a vast amount of hurdles cleared and a completed college search, seniors Katherine Duquiatan and Sean Tully of Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries recently signed their Division I National Letters of Intent. Duquiatan will be running track at the University of North […]
Global
By Anto Akkara
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The second major earthquake in less than three weeks spread renewed fears and dented the confidence of people, said church and charity workers. “The death and devastation may be less, but the psychological impact is very high,” Bishop Paul Simick of Nepal told Catholic News Service May 13. “They were slowly recovering […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
Imagine you are a student in front of a large audience. Right before the show begins you realize that you have no idea what you are going to say and neither do your classmates. Don’t worry, this is not a terrible dream brought on by your public speaking final exam. This is improv night at […]
Arts
By Reviewed David Gibson
With the 2013 election of history’s first Jesuit pope, interest mounted exponentially in the now-worldwide Society of Jesus that St. Ignatius Loyola, with nine friends, founded in the 16th century. What Pope Francis’ election means for the Jesuits “remains to be seen,” writes Jesuit Father John W. O’Malley. But he points out in The Jesuits […]
Columns
By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: In the Catholic Herald (April 23-29), there was the article, “Personal, intimate devotion to Mary.” I was surprised to read Father Majorano’s comment, “The sense of Pope Francis’ devotion to Mary is a little more personal, more intimate than St. John Paul’s was. Pope Francis expresses that feeling that exists between a son and […]
Movies
Presumably intended as a droll comedy about the pursuit of fame and the vagaries of sexual experimentation, writers and co-directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul’s film amounts instead to a consistently cynical, intermittently depraved exercise in strained humor. They use the occasion of a high school reunion to draw a hackneyed contrast between the seemingly […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Vatican and Palestinian representatives have finalized the text of a formal agreement recognizing freedom of religion in the “State of Palestine” and outlining the rights and obligations of the Catholic Church, its agencies and its personnel in the territory. Without fanfare, the Vatican has been referring to the “State of Palestine” at […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
“Against all odds, Manassas City Councilman Marc Aveni, Catholic father of six, has waged a two-year struggle to require a special use permit and public hearing for any abortion clinic opening anywhere in the City of Manassas,” said John Murray, pro-life coordinator at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax. Murray is part of a large […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Peace takes hard work and must be built one person at a time working each day by forgiving others, ending injustice and stopping greed, Pope Francis told elementary school children. People also have to do more to stop condemning those who have made serious mistakes and instead help those who are incarcerated, […]
