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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Clarence L. Boone, a much-loved building manager at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, died of a heart attack Dec. 28 in his sister’s home in North Carolina. He was 65 years old. A funeral service was held Jan. 4 at Roanoke Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Garysburg, N.C., where he was buried. Masses […]
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The multilayered plot of this animated feature – in which all is not what it initially seems – might confuse younger children. But the film’s continuous action and theme of the importance of living in community make it not only splendidly entertaining but morally appealing as well. And director Peter Lepeniotis, who co-scripted with Lorne […]
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This woeful 3-D action adventure finds the super-strong offspring (Kellan Lutz) of Zeus and Queen Alcmene (Roxanne McKee) of the Greek city-state Tiryns at odds with the queen’s power-hungry husband, King Amphitryon (Scott Adkins), and with Amphitryon’s cowardly son, Prince Iphicles (Liam Garrigan). The spat concerns the fate of Hercules’ true love, a foreign princess […]
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After the murder of a mysterious neighbor (Gloria Sandoval) in his apartment complex, a California teen (Andrew Jacobs) has a series of unsettling experiences that his best friend (Jorge Diaz) documents using a handheld camera. Though writer-director Christopher Landon maintains this spooky franchise’s admirable tradition of minimal bloodletting, he ratchets up the adult content with […]
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By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: While attending Mass at an older church, I noticed engraved on the altar “IHS.” One of my family members said it means “I have suffered.” Is this correct? (Annandale) A: The simple answer: No, IHS is not an acronym for “I have suffered.” Rather, IHS is a Christogram – a combination of letters that […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Updated 11 a.m. ET, 1/17/2014 Rose McDermott, president of the St. Charles PTO, said that parents met with Father Grinnell Jan. 16 to talk about the possibility of keeping the school open and were told that the decision would not be reversed. Father Grinnell will hold a meeting with parents Jan. 23 to answer questions […]
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By Dave Borowski
St. Veronica Church in Chantilly was filled Jan. 5 with people eager to hear international author and lecturer Father Jacques Philippe speak on achieving and maintaining inner peace. Father Philippe was born in 1947 in Lorraine, France. In 1976, after years of teaching and research, he entered the Community of the Beatitudes and traveled around […]
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By Katie Bahr
The Arlington Diocese announced Dec. 19 its decision to pursue a possible relocation for Paul VI Catholic High School, which currently is located in Fairfax City. The diocese is determining the feasibility of a new facility at South Riding in eastern Loudoun County, but it first must assess the logistical, legal and financial challenges of […]
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: At work, I was having a debate about whether Christ was really born on Dec. 25. One fellow worker – a professed atheist – said that this was a made-up date and that the church used the dates of pagan Roman holidays for Christmas. Can you help me out? (Lansdowne) A: How wonderful it […]
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In the fall of 2009, Dolores Wisecarver, director of A Woman’s Choice crisis pregnancy center in Falls Church, published a request for assistance in buying 75 cribs in the Holy Spirit Church bulletin. Holy Spirit Council 11922 of the Knights of Columbus wanted to help, so Knight Denny d’Alelio, council chancellor, went to Wisecarver to […]
