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In this Camelot-era prequel to the “X-Men” franchise of comic-book adaptations, young mutants with assorted superpowers – most prominently Charles, aka Professor X (James McAvoy), and Erik, alias Magneto (Michael Fassbender) – team up to avert nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Director and co-writer […]
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A fun-loving grade schooler’s (Jordana Beatty) plans for a super summer go awry when her two best friends (Garrett Ryan and Taylar Hender) take off on adventures of their own, leaving her in the company of a timid third pal (Preston Bailey), her Bigfoot-obsessed little brother (Parris Mosteller) and the aunt (Heather Graham) who comes […]
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Writer-director Woody Allen’s valentine to the City of Lights – an extended travelogue filled with sumptuous scenery and pretty people – asks the question: Would you be happier living a different life in a long-ago, mythically remembered past? A frustrated Hollywood screenwriter and would-be novelist (Owen Wilson) gets to find out during a visit to […]
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The Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, except where noted differently. Pastors Reverend Thomas P. Ferguson – from Parochial Administrator of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Alexandria to Pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Alexandria, Virginia, […]
National
By Jim Lockwood
BRAINTREE, Mass. – The Archdiocese of Boston has opened the canonization cause of an Opus Dei priest, Father Joseph Muzquiz, who established the organization in the United States and worked for many years in the greater Boston area. About 150 people, many of whom are local members of Opus Dei, attended the ceremony held June […]
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By Catholic News Service
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Identical twins and Franciscan Brothers Julian and Adrian Riester – who were born seconds apart and died hours apart June 1 at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg – were remembered by friends, family members and colleagues for their constant companionship. The twins, natives of Buffalo, N.Y., who spent the past […]
Columns
By Fr. Peter J. Daly
Sean Brooks wanted to fly. He knew it was his vocation from his earliest days. Even as a child, he watched airplanes move across the sky. He made his daddy, Michael, take him to airports. He loved everything about airports, even the baggage carousels. Knowing your call, your vocation in life, is a spiritual gift. […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Deacon Luke Dundon comes from a naval family. He was born at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland in 1981 the son of a naval officer, David, and Colleen, and the oldest of four children. He was baptized at St. Timothy Church in Chantilly. The family moved to Spain in 1985, returning to the Washington, D.C., […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Deacon Jeb Donelan wants to be a priest because he wants to give God’s people a sense of hope, even when all seems lost. This dream he has been working toward for the past six years will become a reality June 11 when he is ordained to the priesthood at the Cathedral of St. Thomas […]
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By Dave Borowski
Father Brian Bashista, diocesan director of vocations, bristles a bit when he hears people say that the Arlington Diocese has an abundance of priests. He cites statistics that show the Richmond Diocese has one priest for every 1,600 Catholics, while Arlington has only one priest for every 2,300 Catholics. But he concedes that the diocese […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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