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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: I am a little confused over what happens when a priest (or lay person) drops the Host. What should be done? I even once saw a chalice spill. – A reader in Leesburg A: To preface this response, in the past few weeks, several similar questions have been forwarded to “Straight Answers.” So it […]
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By Christine Stoddard
Shuttled from across the state, participants in Catholic Advocacy Day scrambled to the fourth floor of the SunTrust Center in Richmond the morning of Jan. 29, two weeks after the Virginia General Assembly convened for the 2015 session. Organized by the Virginia Catholic Conference – a public policy advocacy group formed by Arlington Bishop Paul […]
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By Reviewed Rachelle Linner
“Katharine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American Catholic Saint” by Cheryl C.D. Hughes, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2014). “Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel” by Cordelia Frances Biddle, (Westholme Publishing 2014). Together, these two very different books about St. Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) provide a full and exacting portrait of the remarkable woman who, […]
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By Jim Mcelhaton
For a little while earlier this season, the boys’ varsity basketball team at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax may just have had been the best basketball team with a losing record in all of high school athletics. The defending Washington Catholic Athletic Conference champions entered a critical four-game, five-day stretch against league opponents […]
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Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde will celebrate the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph Church in Alexandria Feb. 8 to kick off a yearlong celebration of the church’s centennial. Founded in 1915 as a mission church of St. Mary in Alexandria, St. Joseph Church was constructed with funds from Richmond Bishop Denis J. O’Connell and […]
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Author George Weigel, a columnist for the Catholic Herald, will deliver a lecture at Christendom College in Front Royal Feb. 16, 7:00 p.m., in St. Lawrence Commons. The address is the first of the college’s Major Speakers Program for the spring semester and is open to the public. Weigel, a distinguished senior fellow of the […]
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St. Leo the Great Church, 3700 Old Lee Hwy, Fairfax, will host “Healing from Divorce” Feb. 21, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The one-day retreat will feature Mass, benediction and a healing service, as well as time for quiet reflection and confession. Speakers will include: Father David A. Whitestone, pastor of St. Leo the Great; […]
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By Dave Borowski
It’s not easy being poor in Northern Virginia. According to Zillow, a website that tracks real estate prices, the average monthly rent for an apartment in Fairfax County is $1,950. It’s not much better in Loudoun County where monthly rent is $1,900. If the head of a family is making minimum wage, a large percentage […]
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By Christina Capecchi
Irena Sendler was 29 years old when Nazi tanks slithered into Warsaw, casting a shadow of fear over the town and slicing it apart with a walled-off ghetto for the Jewish residents. There was no way she could sit back and watch. The social worker with the shy eyes and round baby face stood 4’11” […]
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