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By John Mulderig
NEW YORK – The year just past saw the release of a number of films whose celebrated cinematic quality was not matched by moral merit. Writer-director Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood,” for instance, though remarkable for being filmed over the course of more than a decade, took an indifferent stand toward the unacceptable experimentation of its youthful […]
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By Fr. Tad Pacholczyk
Bariatric surgery, which often involves banding of the stomach, is a widely used procedure for treating severe obesity. Another approach that relies on an implantable “stomach pacemaker” also appears poised to assist those struggling with significant weight gain. Many people have already benefited from these kinds of surgical interventions, enabling them to shed a great […]
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Lent has a way of sneaking up on all of us each year. It can be especially hard if you’ve recently lost a loved one. On Ash Wednesday two years ago, shortly after my wife died of uterine cancer, I was determined to get to Mass and receive the ashes on my forehead. But as […]
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By John Patterson
Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington has begun a unique partnership with the University of Notre Dame to bring the university’s Play Like a Champion Today program to the school community. This educational program uses competitive play as a way of shaping virtues in each athlete and ensuring that each athlete has fun. In the […]
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Given by Oblate of St. Francis de Sales Father Mark S. Mealey, for the Mass for Consecrated Religious Life at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. In our first reading this evening from the Book of Job, we hear of his suffering and trials, yet he remained faithful to the call he received […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
Knights of Columbus Council 6153 inducted seven first-degree Knights during a private ceremony at St. Bernadette School in Springfield Feb. 15. The ceremony, which was conducted in Spanish, was the first of its kind in Virginia and is part of a new effort on the part of the Knights of Columbus to bring together Spanish- […]
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By Christine Stoddard
“We love the body. It’s the temple for the Holy Spirit. The body is beautiful, and sex is beautiful when it’s an expression of authentic love,” said Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde Feb. 12 at the Mid-Atlantic Congress in Baltimore. The bishop was responding to the secular criticism that Catholics are ashamed of or disgusted […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Corinne Monogue, director of the diocesan Office of Multicultural Ministries, was adopted by a German immigrant couple the day she was born. In an age of closed adoptions, her birth mother, an unwed teenager, had been put to sleep during labor. It would take her 30 years to discover whether she had given birth to […]
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By Christine Stoddard
It’s not every morning that starts with literal fanfare at Holy Family School in Dale City. But Feb. 11, the sounds of the Revolutionary War transformed sleepyheads into enraptured boys and girls. An all-school presentation from the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps kicked off Colonial Day 2015. After the presentation, interpreters from […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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