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By Dave Borowski
The town of White Post is about 70 miles west of Arlington and sits between Winchester and Front Royal in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. Its relative isolation makes it the perfect site for a place of reflection, prayer and meditation. The San Damiano Spiritual Life Center in White Post officially opens its doors Jan. 15, […]
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By Fr. Paul De Ladurantaye
“Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit” (Jn 3:5). “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I […]
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By Dave Borowski
If it’s Advent, the Daughters of St. Paul choir is travelling around the eastern United States giving Christmas concerts and delighting audiences at parishes and schools. The choir has been performing for 15 years, but this was their first stop in the Arlington Diocese. They were welcomed by an enthusiastic audience ready for a Christmas […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
“Do you have enough? Because I’m even boring myself.” She wasn’t serious, of course – not really. Thérèse Bermpohl, the 48-year-old director of the Office for Family Life, was just doing what she does best: keeping it real. It’s her gift to point out the obvious, she said, only semi-laughing, as she reflected on her […]
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has made changes in Church law to clarify the role of deacons and to remove an ambiguity about the marriage status of some Catholics. The modifications were ordered by the pope in a document, “Omnium in Mente,” (“In the Mind of All”) published Dec. 15 in Latin and Italian […]
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Mark Forrest, an internationally acclaimed Irish Tenor, will perform a Christmas concert at Battlefield High School, 1500 Graduation Dr., Haymarket, Jan. 2 at 7 p.m. Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville is hosting the event. Forrest has given concerts worldwide, and his audiences have included Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. Get tickets Call 703/753-6700. […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Over the river and through the woods, it’s cantering they go. For some students at Christendom College, that’s the literal truth this fall as they embrace the school’s newest extracurricular activity: horseback riding. Helmets on heads and reins in hands, students trot across streams and up steep trails in the Shenandoah Valley as part of […]
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By Thomas Craughwell
The Acts of the Apostles does not tell us what became of St. Andrew after the first Pentecost, when the disciples scattered to carry the gospel to every corner of the Mediterranean world. Tradition says that St. Andrew carried the gospel to Greece, although the Russians believe that he also traveled into their country. At the town of Patras on Greece's western coast St. Andrew was arrested and tied to an X-shaped cross. The legend claims it took him three days to die, and all the while he hung on the cross St. Andrew preached to anyone who passed by.
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By Simon Caldwell
LONDON – An American deacon has recounted how he was suddenly and inexplicably cured from a severe spinal condition after he prayed for healing to Cardinal John Henry Newman. Deacon Jack Sullivan, 71, of Marshfield, Mass., told a Nov. 9 press conference in London that he was transformed after praying to Cardinal Newman, a 19th-century […]
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By Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE (CNS) – The U.S. bishops voted Nov. 17 to approve a pastoral letter on marriage, despite the concern voiced by some bishops about the document’s pastoral tone and content. Nearly 100 changes in two rounds of amendments preceded the 180-45 vote in favor of “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan” on the […]
