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The Bishop Ireton High School varsity boys basketball team played in the 40th Annual Sunkist Shootout Tournament in Lafayette, La., last month. Despite a flight cancellation, the team made it just in time for their first game after a 20-hour bus ride. In the first round, the Cardinals took on a very talented Lafayette Christian […]
Schools
By Chase Tollefson
Five years ago, St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly did not have an engineering class. Lisa Whiting, math teacher and former engineer, kicked off the first engineering class in 2018: Introduction to Engineering. The course received a lot of interest, and a year later another class was added, Honors Principles of Engineering, to […]
Schools
By Gabriela Pariseau
Few people have the rare opportunity to find out what happened to their elementary school classmates. Twenty-one graduates of St. Rita School in Alexandria did just that at a reunion honoring the first class to attend the school for all eight grades (1953-60). After a couple of years of planning, two postponements due to COVID-19 […]
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Knights of Columbus from Our Lady of Hope Church in Potomac Falls and Christ the Redeemer Church in Sterling hosted the annual Basketball Free Throw Championship at Our Lady of Hope School gym Jan. 16. Boys and girls ages 9-14 competed to see who could score the most free throws. Winners of each age group […]
Schools
Students at St. John the Evangelist School in Warrenton are getting involved in service projects in their community. This spring, the student council will coordinate a school drive to support the parish Pro-Life Club baby shower in May, which will benefit a local pregnancy center. At the start of the school year, the student council joined […]
Bishop Burbidge
Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective January 28, 2023: Newly Ordained Permanent Deacons Deacon Linus J. Barloon II, to Holy Trinity Parish in Gainesville Deacon Marvin J. Muhat, to Saint James Parish in Falls Church Deacon Robin W. Sardegna, to Saint Philip Parish in Falls Church […]
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By Zoey Maraist
Bishop Burbidge asks the newly ordained to be imitators of Christ.
Global
VATICAN CITY — The religious-order brothers, sisters and priests and the hermits, monks and consecrated virgins who serve God and the Catholic Church are called to stoke the “missionary fire” in their souls, said Cardinal João Bráz de Aviz. “To live mission in God’s way as consecrated persons, we need the breath of the Spirit, […]
Art
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Considered one of Caravaggio’s best masterpieces, “The Entombment of Christ” was covetingly confiscated by the French for its newly opened Louvre Museum as Napoleon swept down the Italian peninsula in the late 18th century. The painting was one of more than 100 works of art Pope Pius VI was forced to give […]
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