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By Katie Scott
A little after 8:30 a.m. May 21, 2005, the first patient stepped through the doors of the Guadalupe Free Clinic in Colonial Beach. She didn’t know it at the time, but late-stage cancer filled her body. “We knew something was wrong, but didn’t know what,” said her husband, Frank Anderson (his name has been changed […]
Columns
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Holy Year of Mercy will be an opportunity to encourage Christians to meet people’s “real needs” with concrete assistance, to experience a “true pilgrimage” on foot, and to send “missionaries of mercy” throughout the world to forgive even the most serious of sins, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella. The yearlong extraordinary jubilee […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Alward V. Burch dedicated his life to Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, first as a teacher and record-breaking baseball coach, then as its longtime principal. The school returned the favor April 30 when it dedicated its new baseball stadium in his honor. Donna Burch, Al Burch’s widow, cut the ribbon on the field, and […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Robert A. Lange, who retired from active service in the Arlington Diocese in 2012, died May 4 at St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly in Richmond after a long illness. He was 70. “Father Lange’s love for the Lord was so evident and visible, coupled with the desire to lead people to Jesus Christ […]
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The Office of Youth Ministry hosted BASH 2015 April 25 at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax. More than 500 students attended the daylong festivities that included Mass celebrated by Father Thomas Cavanaugh, parochial vicar of St. Theresa Church in Ashburn. After listening to inspirational stories from speakers Bob Rice and Katie Prejean, students […]
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St. Rita School in Alexandria hosted 53 students at the Catholic schools chess tournament April 26. Competing in three age groups, the students represented 13 diocesan elementary schools. Photos by Gerald Martineau for the Catholic Herald.
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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 […]
Local
By Christopher Gunty
As Baltimore City cleaned up after a night of riots, looting and fires following the funeral of Freddie Gray Jr., Archbishop William E. Lori said the church’s place is to pray, be a voice for peace, and participate in a wider community dialogue to solve the systemic issues that led to the unrest. Gray, 25, […]
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 […]
Books
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 […]
