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By Anna Harvey
Michael Rauer has traveled the world through a career in the U.S. Army. Now, he brings these stories to the classroom as a social studies teacher at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria. Rauer gained his love of history from his parents, who met in Europe during World War II. His parents’ service inspired Rauer […]
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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge will lead a diocesan pilgrimage to the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Emmitsburg, Md., Oct. 7, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and include a talk, Mass, […]
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By Anna Harvey
After reading the book “Divine Renovation” by Father James Fallon, Father Joseph W. Farrell knew that he had to share it with others. The next time the George Mason University Catholic Campus Ministry chaplain had dinner with Father William P. Saunders, vicar of faith formation, he told Father Saunders, “You really ought to look into […]
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By Anna Harvey
As a pitcher on the USA Youth National Team, Tyler Hibbs had a strong arm and a bright future ahead of him as a professional baseball player. But when drug abuse took hold, he spiraled out of control. Years after Tyler’s death, his father Tom Hibbs published a book on how his deep Christian faith […]
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By Cecilia Engbert
A group of high schoolers from St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fredericksburg approached a small house in Sabana Mula, Dominican Republic, where a woman invited them inside. She brought them to her bedridden mother, who can only move to her wheelchair with the assistance of her son, who was away that day […]
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Two Dominicans with ties to the Arlington diocese, Sister Mary Joseph Wittman and Sister Anna Joy Tipton, made their profession of perpetual vows July 25 in Nashville, Tenn. Sister Mary Joseph Wittman Sister Mary Joseph Wittman grew up attending St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton. She attended Seton School in Manassas and George Mason […]
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Bishop Burbidge
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released proposed regulations Aug. 7 implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, responded with the following statement: “We supported the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act because it enhanced the protection of […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Signaling the Vatican’s growing engagement in efforts to ensure the ethical development of new technologies, the Vatican has announced that “Artificial Intelligence and Peace” will be the theme for the next World Day of Peace, which is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2024. “The remarkable advances made in the field of artificial intelligence […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a world suffering from “diseases of the soul,” like pride, hatred and violence, the young people who traveled to Portugal for World Youth Day showed that another way of living and interacting is possible, Pope Francis said. World Youth Day was not a vacation, but “an encounter with the living Christ […]
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6/18/26
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