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By Julia Willis
WASHINGTON (CNS) – After a person retires, the support and encouragement of family and friends become a crucial part of day-to-day living. As professional relationships fade and office happenings lose their importance, seniors begin to rely on a network of their closest loved ones to add meaning and joy to their lives. Listening to grandchildren’s […]
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By Sarah Hinds
WASHINGTON (CNS) – As people age they should not only make efforts to be physically and mentally sharp but should consider ways to take stock of their spiritual health. There has been plenty written about the need to keep the brain and body active, and these theories are continually backed up by new studies. For […]
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Storytelling takes a back seat to sermonizing in this competent ensemble drama that turns on a Chicago pastor’s (Ted McGinley) preaching about the centrality of the Cross in the lives of Christians and the need to put faith into practice. He and his wife (Tracy Melchior) do so by taking in a pregnant teen (Madison […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
When it comes to auctions, trimming a beard is generally not what one expects on the auction block, but at St. Theresa School in Ashburn it was a hot ticket item. Parochial Vicar Father Thomas Cavanaugh’s five-inch beard had its first appearance on the chopping block during last year’s Parent Teacher Organization auction. He saw […]
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Lightweight animated adventure in which a cuddly alien (voice of Jim Parsons) joins his conformist kind in a peaceful invasion of Earth during which they exile the planet’s human inhabitants to Australia, commandeering the remainder of the orb for themselves. But when the extraterrestrial makes a mistake that endangers his fellow newcomers (their leader voiced […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Giuseppe Castiglione, a Jesuit lay brother who came of age in 18th-century Italy, picked up a paintbrush for Christ, made the trek to China and became the court painter for an emperor famous for patronizing the arts. Now, paintings by Lang Shining – his adopted Chinese name – are among the Palace Museum’s collection of […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Step into St. John the Beloved Church’s thrift shop in McLean and you are as likely to find a gently used designer dress as you are a retiree committed to keeping the place going. Out of the shop’s approximately 45 regular volunteers, Manager Sue Clemente, a retired flight attendant and supervisor, said “only four or […]
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By Christine Stoddard
When Clare Sukley, now a 13-year-old religious education student at Our Lady of the Blue Ridge Church in Madison, was 8, Nashville stole her heart. After the whirlwind of the CMA Music Festival – a weekend-long celebration of country music with performances from headliners like the Zac Brown Band – Sukley decided to pursue singing […]
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By Christine Stoddard
“As Catholic women – single, married, widowed and consecrated, mothers both spiritual and natural – you all know the meaning of suffering,” said Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde during the Mass at the diocesan Women’s Conference March 28. “We have all been saddened by loss, and we have all been hurt by sin. We recognize […]
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By Katie Scott
Every afternoon after lunch, Mary Wehman sits down at a table in her sunroom with a roll of stamps and an address book and picks up a pen. For the next three hours she’ll fill pages of cursive for some of her 51 pen pals. Living everywhere from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Texas, the […]
