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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
The following priests are celebrating jubilees in 2013. 55 years Missionhurst Father Leo J. Zonneveld was born in Holland Sept. 8, 1934, to Johannes and Querina Zonneveld, one of seven children. He entered the Missionhurst Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1952, pronouncing his first vows a year later on Sept. 8, 1953. […]
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By Thomas Craughwell
St. Hallvard Feast day: May 15 In the small army of Scandinavia’s saints, one of the most appealing is St. Hallvard. He was a seafarer who traded furs, walrus ivory and amber along the Baltic Sea ports. One day Hallvard was about to sail across Oslo’s Drammenfjor, when he heard a cry. Looking up he […]
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Splashy, sometimes cartoonish 3-D adaptation of the classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), scion of the WASP establishment, recounts his friendship with the iconic self-made man and would-be social insider Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) whose obsessive love for Nick’s alluring but married cousin Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) leads first […]
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By Katie Bahr
A mother never forgets the birth of her child. No matter what the circumstances of her pregnancy or delivery, the end result is almost always the same: one life changed forever and one life just begun. Rosemary Antunes, a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church in Front Royal, is very familiar with the birth […]
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By Catholic News Service
WORCESTER, Mass. – Bishop Robert J. McManus of Worcester pleaded not guilty May 7 at a Wakefield, R.I., courthouse to charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident. According to the Boston Globe, the bishop was released on personal recognizance after his attorney, Bill Murphy, told 4th Division District Court Judge Walter […]
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Special effects trump substance in this addition to the blockbuster screen franchise adapted from a series of Marvel comics dating back to 1963. As the titular superhero’s billionaire alter ego (Robert Downey Jr.) battles a mysterious, bin Laden-like terrorist (Ben Kingsley), their conflict endangers his now live-in girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow). The range of moral and […]
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A caricatured portrayal of Catholicism – via a straw-man priest (Robin Williams) and a hyper-pious South American matron (Patricia Rae) – is only the most annoying of this vulgar romantic comedy’s many defects. To protect Rae’s character – his birth mother – from the scandalous fact that his adoptive parents (Robert De Niro and Diane […]
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By Katie Collins
Missionhurst Father John B. Peters, who lived his vocation in service around the world, died April 16 of natural causes at the Missionhurst house in Arlington. He was 84 years old. This August would have marked his 60th year as a priest. A funeral Mass was offered by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde April 26 […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Librado Cena, director of religious education at St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, was involved in a road rage incident that turned deadly and became the first homicide in the City of Fairfax since 2008. Father David A. Whitestone, pastor of St. Leo, placed Cena on administrative leave April 18, according to Michael J. […]
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Nasty fact-based crime chronicle – set in the early 1990s – in which a trio of dimwitted bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) kidnap an abrasive but successful businessman (Tony Shalhoub) and torture him into signing over all his holdings to them. Thanks in large part to the efforts of a straight-arrow police […]
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