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By Ashleigh Buyers
More than 100 fresh “recruits” gathered inside St. Benedict Hall in Arlington Feb. 2 for the second session of Marriage Boot Camp, a new faith formation series sponsored by St. Charles Borromeo Church. Unlike what the title suggests, there is no drill sergeant demanding endless push-ups from young couples on their way to the altar. […]
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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 Dave Borowski
In 2013, Pope Francis proclaimed that a Year of Consecrated Life be observed from Nov. 30, 2014, to Feb. 2, 2016. In a letter to those living a consecrated life, the pope said that there were three aims for the year: to look to the past with gratitude, to live in the present with passion […]
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By Dave Borowski
What better way to kick off a year of parish pride then with a Mass? An unusually warm and sunny mid-winter day greeted St. Joseph parishioners as Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated the centennial opening Mass Feb. 8 at St. Joseph Church in Alexandria. Josephite Father Donald M. Fest and Deacons Albert A. Anderson […]
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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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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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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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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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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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