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When: Tuesday, June 5 at 11 a.m. Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. Baccalaureate Mass: June 4 at St. Bernadette Church in Springfield at 7 p.m. Total graduates: 203 Graduates include: Catherine L. Addington, Christopher Alexander Adleson, Margaret Sara Alcal, Sophia Mahrus Alkhanbeshi, Wil Joseph […]
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When: Thursday, May 31at noon Where: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. Baccalaureate Mass: May 20 at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington at 9 a.m. Graduation speaker: Kevin J. Fay, president of Alcalde & Fay, a lobbying firm based in Arlington Total graduates: 276 Graduates […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Eighty eighth-graders from local schools recently were awarded scholarships to the following diocesan high schools. Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria Salesian Scholarship Katherine Beutner and Veronica Roach, from Holy Spirit School in Annandale; Michelle Dwyer and Joseph Siedlarz, from St. Louis School in Alexandria; Sophia Gull, from Corpus Christi School in Falls Church; Brandon […]
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Catholic Herald Staff Report According to the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools, the following people will retire at the end of this school year: At All Saints School in Manassas, Peggy Engstrom, who taught for 24 years, and Marsha Vice, who taught for 16 years. At Blessed Sacrament School in Alexandria, Mary Lee Charles, who […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
55 years Josephite Father Francis M. Hull was born Dec. 20, 1923, in Philadelphia and graduated from St. Thomas More High School. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the South Pacific for three years during World War II. In 1948, he entered the Josephite minor seminary in Newburgh, N.Y., and was ordained […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Tilly Egge Coyle, a graduate of Bishop O’Connell High School and parishioner of St. Agnes Parish in Arlington, lost her husband, Matt, to a cardiac arrest in February. He was 40 years old. The family has three boys, aged 5, 3 and 2 months, the youngest born about a month after Matt died. Because the […]
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By Katie Collins
Step into a classroom at Siena Academy, a Catholic Montessori school in Great Falls, and rows of desks and a large chalkboard are nowhere in sight. No hefty textbooks line the shelves and no bell rings to signal a change in subjects. Instead, a young boy reads cross-legged in a corner as another arranges a […]
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By Katie Collins
There’s a hidden gem in the Arlington Diocese for older single Catholics and it’s got it all: faith, service, fun and, perhaps most importantly, a community with shared values. Prime Time Single Catholics (PTSC) of Northern Virginia is a club that serves single Catholics aged 40 and over who are free to marry in the […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
A lot of ministry depends on meeting people where they are. The diocesan young adult Catholic Sports Club unites young people and clergy on the basketball court and soccer field. Theology on Tap brings speakers to bars. The Legion of Mary goes door-to-door to visit Catholics in their own homes. Not to be overlooked, ministry […]
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By Dave Borowski
John B. “J. J.” Stinson of Alexandria died April 6 in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. He was 20 years old and a graduate of Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria. Stinson was a second-year student and an academic junior majoring in philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech University […]
