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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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By Katie Scott
The solemnity of St. Joseph often is overshadowed by the feast of the famous Emerald Isle bishop, which falls in the same week. But at St. Andrew the Apostle Church and School March 19, the foster father of Jesus had center stage – or rather, center table. In his honor, the Clifton school and parish […]
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Marymount University in Arlington announced its 10th Athletics Hall of Fame class, including Mary Carroll (2005, women’s volleyball); Crissy Washington (1994, women’s basketball); Greg Murtha (2010, men’s swimming); Clair Gebauer (2004, women’s soccer); and Jenny Baize (2000, women’s volleyball and basketball). Carroll was named Honorable Mention All-America and All-Mid-Atlantic Region by the American Volleyball Coaches […]
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By John Patterson
At Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Superdance is an inseparable part of the school’s identity. A 40-year-old tradition of having fun and helping people, Superdance is a 12-hour dance dedicated to raising money to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. What is now a fun-filled evening has its roots in sadness. In 1975, O’Connell […]
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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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Teenagers are still on the run – when they’re not too busy killing one other – in this follow-up to the 2014 kick-off of the futuristic franchise. Based on the second book of the trilogy by Veronica Roth, director Robert Schwentke’s thriller – set, like its predecessor, in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago – finds […]
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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 Katie Scott
In his Arlington residence, where he lives with seven other people, James Schreiner has found not only balance and the fruits of living in community, but also the opportunity to fulfill "a calling to be not so much a servant but a brother," he said.
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By Regina Lordan
As members of the research staff at the Vatican Observatory, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno and Jesuit Father Paul Mueller are asked a lot of questions related to science and faith. But a select number are asked repeatedly: What was the star of Bethlehem; how did the universe begin and how will it end; what really […]
Competing moral codes and the Passion of Christ