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By Mary Witko
Pope Francis once said, “A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.” Taken in the context of the confessional or even the church’s outreach efforts to the poor, his words resound clearly. But in the often dog-eat-dog business world, mercy might not seem to have a place with maximizing profits […]
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By Christine Stoddard
“Like a mosaic made of tiles in beautiful colors…” is the Spanish-language pamphlet tagline that introduces readers to ¡Venga!, the Arlington Diocese’s new initiative to increase Hispanic student enrollment in diocesan schools from McLean to Winchester. Of the 17,234 students enrolled in diocesan schools, about 10 percent identify themselves as Hispanic. That percentage does not […]
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Oblate of St. Francis de Sales Father William J. Ruhl died April 27 at Annecy Hall at the De Sales Centre in Childs, Md. He served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna from 2009 until he retired in June 2011. Father Ruhl was born in Philadelphia April 19, 1935. […]
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By Dave Borowski
It’s almost time for high school seniors to graduate and begin the next phase of their lives – college. It’s a big transition away from the watchful eyes of parents, and often faith can get lost in the move. Recognizing the impact college life can have on the faith of young people, Father Christopher Vaccaro, […]
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Paul VI challenged Our Lady of Good Counsel to several matches April 27 at Nottoway Park in Vienna. The Boys number 3 double team won their match against Our Lady of Good Counsel 8-6 and one singles match, played by PVI senior Danny Schochinski. The final score for the night was 2-7.
Columns
By George Weigel
Although he scored 40 times in an eight-year NFL career, he is best known for the touchdown he didn’t score, as the sun set over Yankee Stadium Dec. 28, 1958. His wife of 59 years, Joan, said that Jim Mutscheller, who died April 10, wanted to be known as a man “who had led a […]
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Ron Riggins, a parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Burke, was elected to a three-year term on the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. The election took place last month at the committee’s meeting in Jacksonville, Fla. A convert to Catholicism, Riggins is a core team leader for the Arlington Diocese’s Unbound […]
National
By Patricia Zapor
ALBANY, N.Y. – Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, who went from hometown schoolteacher to Vatican correspondent, lived out her drive to be a writer even in her last days. She died April 28 in her hometown of Albany, New York, after a battle with cancer. Sister Mary Ann, 68, had stepped down last summer from […]
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: On Easter Sunday, the priest at my parish made a point in his homily about the burial cloths left in the tomb of the Lord. I know about the Shroud of Turn being the burial cloth of Jesus, but is there another cloth that we have? – A reader in Sterling A: In the […]
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