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By Katie Bahr
For the past eight months, students from around the diocese have been working their way through a list of 15 books, reading in their free time and meeting weekly with classmates and teachers to discuss what they’ve learned. All those hours of preparation built to an epic conclusion May 21, as students from 19 local […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
Chris E. Domes, who has been on the staff of Marymount University in Arlington since 1996, has been named the 10th president of Silver Lake College of the Holy Family in Manitowoc, Wis. Silver Lake College is a four-year, private, Catholic liberal arts college that was founded and continues to be sponsored by the Franciscan […]
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When: Tuesday, June 4 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington Baccalaureate Mass: June 3 at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield at 7 p.m. Total graduates: 213 Graduates include: Justin Michael Holmes, Michaela Joy Mulokey, Seroja Nikoli Boyakhchian, Thomas Anthony Kelly, Emily Elizabeth Hutton, […]
Movies
Snappy follow-up to director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of – and prequel to – the long-lived sci-fi franchise that stretches back to 1960s television. In this second chronicle of their early professional lives, dynamic, impetuous Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his seemingly emotionless half-Vulcan, half-human first officer Spock (Zachary Quinto) lead their intrepid crew on […]
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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. […]
Columns
By Fr. William P. Saunders
Q: I am an elderly person, and I remember having to fulfill the Easter Duty. Does that still apply? My younger relatives look at me like, “What are you talking about?” (Springfield) A: Yes, “the Easter duty” is still applicable, although with slight adjustments. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) had mandated, “Every faithful of either […]
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By Andrew Shaw
How often have you heard that America is falling behind in preparing students for the high-tech future? Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington has made a commitment to moving forward with developing today’s students for tomorrow’s future. Part of this commitment has been the establishment of the first high school engineering program in the Arlington […]
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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 […]
Movies
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 […]
