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Every year, the Catholic Herald invites readers to submit their wedding photos from ceremonies that took place in the diocese in the previous year. Take a look at some of the weddings from 2014 around the Arlington Diocese. Slideshow captions: Photo 1: Cover of Wedding Guide in print Feb. 12-18, 2015 Photo 2: Christopher Robert […]
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By Fr. Michael Witczak
Valentine’s Day is the busiest restaurant day of the year after Mother’s Day. Couples vie with each other to share protestations of love. Grade school children share Valentines far and wide. How did this public demonstration of love get to be associated with St. Valentine? Who was he? What might it mean for us today? […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Bishops who do not comply with the child protection norms adopted by their bishops’ conferences and approved by the Vatican must face real consequences, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. The commission, he said, “is very, very concerned about this whole […]
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Fr. Robert J. Rippy, rector of the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, makes the sign of the cross with ashes on the forehead of a parishioner during last year’s Ash Wednesday Mass at the cathedral. Ash Wednesday is Feb. 18 this year.
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Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde blessed 485 individual awards earned by Scouts over the past year and presented Spirit Alive awards to American Heritage Girls Maria Horner, Gracie Lawler and Sarah Souser. The bishop also presented Father Augustine Minh Hai Tran, the newly appointed Scout chaplain, with a stole embroidered with the emblem of the […]
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Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will deliver the annual Cardinal John Dearden Lecture on “Gaudium et Spes after 50 Years: An Asian Reception,” March 2 at 4:30 p.m., at the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center at the Catholic University in Washington. An alumnus of Catholic U., Cardinal Tagle earned his licentiate in sacred theology in […]
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By Katie Scott
Highlighting the life, suffering and enduring hope of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley called for reflection and action to combat modern-day slavery during his homily on the first International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking Feb. 8. We must “do everything in our power through the […]
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By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – Somewhere along the line weddings became very expensive celebrations. Some people have long dreamt about the exotic weddings they want or else they feel pressured to go this route by friends and family. But such plans ring up a huge tab that might need some reconsideration. Although the U.S. Catholic bishops have not […]
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Arlington seminarians Stephen Vaccaro and Jordan Willard were admitted to Candidacy for Holy Orders at the Josephinum during a Mass with Columbus Bishop Frederick F. Campbell, vice chancellor of the Josephinum, in St. Turibius Chapel in Rome last month. The ceremony marked a defining moment in the priestly formation of 18 seminarians. When a seminarian, […]
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By Russell Shaw
I try to take American politics seriously, I really do. Serious issues are at stake, after all. But sometimes, entirely too often in fact, the realities of American political discourse make taking it seriously awfully hard. Considering the seriousness of what’s at stake, this may be what hearing Beethoven’s Ninth performed on the harmonica would […]
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