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CINCINNATI – Lauren Hill, a Mount St. Joseph University freshman who gained international attention when she pursued her dream of playing college basketball even as her inoperable brain cancer advanced, died overnight April 10. She was 19. She suffered from a fatal brain cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG. “God has a […]
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By Katie Scott
The frigid winter morning you dash to your SUV only to find the battery is dead; or the afternoon you’re running late for your child’s swim practice and see smoke billowing from your sedan’s hood – these are the rare moments when many of us stop taking our cars for granted. For most Northern Virginians, […]
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By Seth Gonzales
DALLAS – Even after becoming the toast of the sports world, golfer Jordan Spieth, a 21-year-old Dallas Jesuit graduate, remained humble and down-to-earth as he worked the crowds at Augusta, handled the media, and bantered with morning and late night talk show hosts after his historic win. That’s no surprise to those who know the […]
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By Elizabeth Foss
It’s a good thing Easter is a season, because Lent was loath to let go. The week before Easter, my brother-in-law died. Before the suitcase was unpacked after his funeral, a very dear friend died in the early morning of Holy Thursday. And Good Friday was cold and dark and a little scarier than usual […]
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By Jean Denton
It was an unusual sight in the middle of the drillfield at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg – a white tent with a sign on the side proclaiming, “Jesus is here.” It also was an unusual setting for the exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament – outside, amid occasional flying footballs and students passing by, […]
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By George Weigel
Galatians 1:15-18 is not your basic “witness to the Resurrection” text. Yet St. Paul’s mini-spiritual autobiography helps us understand just how radically the experience of the Risen Lord changed the first disciples’ religious worldview and why an evangelical imperative was built into that experience. Here’s the Pauline text: “… when He who had set me […]
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By Dave Borowski
In a tradition as old as Christianity and performed thousands of times around the world on Holy Thursday, Father Jerry J. Pokorsky, pastor of St. Michael Church in Annandale, washed the feet of 12 altar servers in a ceremony April 2. The ceremony recreated Jesus washing the feet of his 12 Apostles.
Movies
True to form, exotic settings, stale dictums and always-murky moral values characterize this extension of the “Fast and Furious” series. Led by putatively Catholic paterfamilias Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jordana Brewster, and Tyrese Gibson set out to avenge the murder of their colleague Sung Kang. Director James Wan and screenwriter Chris Morgan […]
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WorkCamp volunteers from St. Leo the Great Church commemorate Good Friday with living Stations of the Cross in English and Spanish.
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