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By Mary C. Tillotson
Almost 200 people gathered in the parish hall at St. John the Apostle Church in Leesburg Jan. 18 to learn about the New Evangelization and kick off Loudoun County’s newest evangelization and catechesis program. Three parishes in the county – St. John, St. Francis de Sales in Purcellville, and St. Theresa in Ashburn – have […]
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By Dave Borowski
Holy Spirit Church in Annandale was filled with mourners Jan. 27 as Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde and more than 70 priests from the Arlington and Richmond Dioceses offered the funeral Mass for Father Frank J. Ready. A Knights of Columbus honor guard escorted the bishop and Father Ready’s coffin to the altar. Father Lee […]
Movies
By Mike Nelson
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – It is not an overtly “religious” film. Other than a brief funeral scene inside of a church early in the film, there is no mention of God, or of a particular faith or religion. And yet, “Black or White” is, according to its makers and stars, clearly a film that addresses […]
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By Christine Stoddard
When the time came to declare his major, aspiring priest Leopoldo M. Vives – then an 18-year-old college student at the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid, Spain – didn’t go for theology or philosophy. Instead Father Vives, now pastor of Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria since June 2013, spent six years studying electrical […]
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By Dave Borowski
In his 1998 encyclical “Fides et Ration” (“Faith and Reason”), St. John Paul wrote, “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth – in a word, to know himself – so […]
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By Katie Scott
The Paul Stefan Foundation, which offers a home and love to mothers in crisis pregnancies, is expanding from two houses in Unionville to a 30-room regional maternity housing and educational center in Orange. The Unionville houses eventually will be used as stepping stones to independent living. The new center is unique in the state due […]
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By Katie Scott
On Christmas Eve, hope looked up through wide brown eyes at a woman who thought she’d lost it forever. Less than a year before, Maggie was living under a bridge in Charlottesville and eating from a dumpster. She was an addict who spent her days panhandling to feed a drug and alcohol addiction. “I thought […]
Schools
Jimmy Skipper, a senior at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, was named a 2014 Fall High School Soccer All-American Jan. 17 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. A left-footed forward and team co-captain, Skipper led Paul VI with 25 goals and eight assists during the fall 2014 season. He also was […]
Movies
The real depredations of Alzheimer’s disease and its toll on the families of the afflicted are not on display in this flawed drama about a Columbia University linguistics professor (Julianne Moore) who falls prey to the early-onset strain of the illness shortly after turning 50. While it features a sensitive and appealing performance by Moore, […]
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While separated from her unfaithful husband (John Corbett), a high school English teacher (Jennifer Lopez) is seduced by a newly arrived teen neighbor (Ryan Guzman) who turns out to be an obsessive maniac. Since her ill-chosen paramour has managed to befriend her bullied son (Ian Nelson) and, although of age, will soon be her student, […]
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