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Have you paid attention to the man behind the curtain? In the famous movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy, her friends and her dog Toto journey through the magical land of Oz to reach the wizard, the only person who can send her back home to Kansas. When the group travels to the wizard’s inner […]
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From Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo, Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, and Bishop Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington and State Chaplain of the Virginia State Council of the Knights of Columbus, We are aware that the Knights of Columbus Council #3548 has extended an invitation to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to […]
Schools
By Jake Murray
The Bishop Ireton girls’ lacrosse program is gearing up for yet another highly anticipated season following their VISAA and WCAC championship wins in 2014. A new year brings new opportunities and another chance to fill the trophy cases at Ireton. After a magical run during the playoffs last May, the Cardinals have a target on […]
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By George Weigel
There seems to be some dispute as to whether the original Trotskyite, Leon Trotsky, ever said, “You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you.” One quotation-archaeologist, digging deeply, claims to have found the origins of Trotsky’s alleged bon mot in the treatise, “Petty-Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party.” […]
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By Mary Stachyra Lopez
Nestled in a tiny wooded area off West Ox Road in Fairfax, across the street from a busy shopping plaza, is a small park. The shoppers packing the TJ Maxx across the street and cars whizzing by at all hours give no indication that more than 1,500 soldiers were killed or wounded in a bloody […]
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By Dave Borowski
Hundreds of parishioners filled St. Ann Church in Arlington March 3 to hear Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, speak on good, evil, renewal and conversion. In the spirit of the new evangelization, Cardinal Tagle’s homily was a treatise on conversion and renewal during the season of Lent. “No one can say that we […]
Art
By Christine Stoddard
“Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea,” a world-class exposition of Marian masterpieces from Renaissance and Baroque Europe at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, closes April 12. Nearly 70 paintings, sculptures and textiles are on loan from the Vatican Museums, Musée du Louvre, Palazzo Pitti and other European and American institutions. The […]
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By Dave Borowski
It was a great day for a run. Bright skies and warm weather greeted 24 young women March 8 as they boarded vans driven by Father Joel D. Jaffe, Arlington diocesan vocations director, and Administrative Assistant Anne-Marie Minnis to visit three local convents in a daylong “nun run.” The run is an annual diocesan vocational […]
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By Dave Borowski
The annual Men’s Conference, sponsored by the diocesan Office for Family Life, was scheduled to begin March 7 at 9 a.m. at Foxchase Manor in Manassas. If you got there 45 minutes before it started, you would have found a full parking lot with the nearest place to park more than a mile away. A […]
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