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By Katie Scott
When he was about 13 years old, Father Joseph D. Bergida, now parochial vicar of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton, took an oil-painting class with his brother and sister. While most students painted canvas, the siblings asked the instructor if they could paint statues instead. Father Bergida’s sister painted a figurine of Mary […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Palm Sunday is on the horizon, and with it come hundreds of fresh palm fronds just waiting to be transformed into crosses and roses. You can brush up on your palm-weaving skills by viewing the video below. When you are done you can create a variety of arrangements to decorate your house or place them […]
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By Soren Johnson
“The conference ‘high’ wears off fast,” one dad told me the week after the record-breaking 1,100-man-strong diocesan men’s conference earlier this month, “and you’re back in the thick of daily life.” That said, in talks that were at times fierce and gentle, hilarious and sobering, keynoters Father Larry Richards, Father Marc Drouin, and Arlington Bishop […]
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The community garden outside the Sister Maureen Joyce Center was once an abandoned lot in a low-income neighborhood in Albany, N.Y. Today, it provides fresh fruits and vegetables to the center’s soup kitchen, where nearly 130 people gather three times a week for a lunch made from scratch by volunteers like Lois Keefrider. Keefrider praises […]
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By Dave Borowski
The annual Mass for the Anointing of the Sick was celebrated at St. Ambrose Church in Annandale March 21. Scores of people in wheelchairs, with crutches and canes and others whose ailments were not visible were greeted by men and women of the Knights and Dames from the Northern Virginia Region of the Sovereign Military […]
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Pierogis, fish fry, pizza and soup have long been staples of Lenten Friday meals at local churches. The dinners help raise money for parishes and Knights of Columbus councils. Knights of Columbus Council No. 12791 at Our Lady of Hope Church in Potomac Falls had an idea for something different. One of the Knights, David […]
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By George Weigel
Shortly after George Pell was named Archbishop of Melbourne, he instituted several reforms at the archdiocesan seminary, including daily Mass and the daily celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours, both of which had fallen by the wayside in the preceding years. The seminary faculty, enthusiastic proponents of “Catholic Lite,” thought to call the archbishop’s […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Having so much world-famous art housed in Rome’s churches and chapels has risked turning the city’s sacred spaces into sightseer circuses. A hushed prayerful atmosphere for the faithful is often broken by clicking cameras and tourists exchanging guidebook details. But one Rome attraction has managed to retain its spiritual side, according to […]
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By Katie Scott
Sometimes bringing Christ to people means picking up wads of paper towels covered in PB&J stickiness. Other times it requires answering tough questions about sex and marriage. Father Gregory S. Thompson is eager to do it all – and everything in between – as part of his chaplaincy at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington. […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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Competing moral codes and the Passion of Christ