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By Dave Borowski
Andrew Haissig, 27, is the son of a military family that, after traveling around the world, settled in Northern Virginia, where they worshipped at St. Veronica Church in Chantilly. He was a senior in high school when he started thinking about the priesthood. After graduation, he enrolled in the engineering program at Virginia Tech University […]
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By Dave Borowski
Dort Bigg, 31, has played the violin since he was 3 years old. He played so well that after the Washington, D.C., native graduated from DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md., in 2001, he entered The Julliard School in New York to study the violin. He graduated from Julliard in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree, […]
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By Maria-pia Negro
Sister Maria Grace Dateno, Daughter of St. Paul, observed her 25th anniversary of her commitment to the religious life with a Mass celebrated by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde May 21 at Marymount University in Arlington. Surrounded by other sisters, friends, and her parents, Bill and Betty Ann Dateno, the jubilarian beamed with happiness as […]
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By Katie Collins
Vocations are a family affair for seminarian Noah C. Morey. The sixth of eight children, he has an older brother who is a Benedictine priest and an older sister who is a Discalced Carmelite nun. Morey, who will be ordained a transitional deacon May 31 by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde at the Cathedral of […]
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By Maria-pia Negro
For the first 10 minutes of class, Sister Terry’s room at St. Rita School in Alexandria is filled with classical music as her students practice something that could be considered a lost art – cursive writing. “It is a language, so they can become proficient,” said Sister Theresa McCrossan, Sister of St. Joseph, known by […]
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When: Tuesday, June 3 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., S.E., Washington Baccalaureate Mass: June 2 at St. Bernadette Church, 7602 Old Keene Mill Road, Springfield, at 7 p.m. Total graduates: 181 Graduates include: Kevin Liberty Abbed,Elizabeth Jane Addington, Eric Ricardo Alvarez, Spencer Theoharis Amarantides, […]
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When: Thursday, May 29 at noon Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington Baccalaureate Mass: May 18 at Bishop O’Connell High School, 6600 Little Falls Road, Arlington at 9 a.m. Total graduates: 280 Graduation speaker: Catherine Murphy Keating, head of J. P. Morgan Investment Management Americas and […]
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When: Sunday, June 1 at 2:30 p.m. Where: George Mason Patriot Center, 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax Baccalaureate Mass: May 30 at St. John Neumann, 11900 Lawyers Road, Reston, at 7:30 p.m. Note: The article has been updated to reflect the change of location. Total graduates: 193 Co-valedictorians: Emma Merrill and Madison Nguyen Graduation speaker: David […]
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: I understand that objects of devotion that have been blessed (such as palm branches, rosaries, crucifixes, etc.) should never be simply discarded in the trash, but should be disposed of by burying them or by burning them and then burying the ashes. Is this correct? – Via email A: As Catholics, we are accustomed […]
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By Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
A number of serious diseases are known to occur because of defects or mutations in our DNA. Curing such diseases could in principle be carried out by rewriting the DNA to fix the mutated base pairs. Yet until recently, scientists have remained largely stymied in their attempts to directly modify genes in a living animal. […]
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