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By George P. Matysek Jr.
BALTIMORE – Hundreds of friends and family gathered at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore May 8 to celebrate the life of Yeardley Love, a senior lacrosse player at the University of Virginia and a 2006 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson. Love was found dead May 3 in her off-campus […]
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All Saints Parish in Manassas and St. Mark Parish in Vienna are hosting the “Spotlight on the Arts Summer Camps,” which feature one-week day camps for youths from pre-K through 12th grade at the end of July. There are a variety of camp offerings, including Art Explorer Camp, Arts and Crafts Fun Camp, Drama Bootcamp […]
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By John Thavis
LISBON, Portugal – Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Portugal for a four-day visit and urged its traditionally Catholic population not to close the door to God and religion. For a humanity too often lacking in love and without hope for salvation, the Gospel still represents “the source of hope,” the pope said after landing in […]
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By Katie Bahr
Father John Noel (“Jack”) Fullen, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore who was living in Fairfax, died Friday after complications from heart surgery last fall. He had been living and working in the Arlington Diocese since 2001, assisting at several local parishes. He was 70 years old. Fullen was born Dec. 25, 1939, […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated the annual jubilee Mass for diocesan and religious order priests to recognize milestone anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood May 5 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Md. 55 Years Father Cornelius O’Brien, ordained June 5, 1955, is retired and […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Three mothers, one story. Throughout the last quarter-century, the lives of Bernice Gillespie, Lorraine Ondrasik and Eva Ondrasik have become forever entwined – an interconnected triangle of motherly strength, courage and love. Their story began in 1986, when then-17-year-old Bernice Clark, a 1986 graduate of Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax, said goodbye to […]
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By Carol Glatz and Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – After nine years of work involving Vatican officials, English-speaking bishops around the world and hundreds of consultants, Pope Benedict XVI received a complete version of the English translation of the Roman Missal. The white-bound, gold-edged missal, which contains all of the prayers used at Mass, was given to the pope during a […]
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By Katie Bahr
The sacraments are for the birds. And the mice. And the butterflies. In the new book The Little Butterfly Who Loved Jesus, the sacraments are actually celebrated by many animals, including a cricket, a fish, two turtle doves and a butterfly. In a series of short stories, the book walks young readers through all the […]
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By Richard Szczepanowski
WASHINGTON – More than 3,500 people crowded into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception April 24 to attend the first traditional Latin Mass in decades to be celebrated at the high altar there. Sponsored by the Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy, the Mass in the extraordinary form was […]
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By Fr. John Catoir
In the February 2010 issue of “Catholic Update,” a publication under the auspices of St. Anthony Messenger Press, there is an excellent article by Jesuit Father Mark E. Thibodeaux, “Praydreaming: Key to Discernment.” He speaks of prayerful daydreaming as the key to discernment. Accordingly, the Holy Spirit speaks to us through our own daydreams and […]
