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By Elizabeth Foss
By now, many New Year’s resolutions are wobbling — or have quietly been abandoned altogether.
You can find a parking space at the gym. You can’t find the planner you promised to consult and annotate daily.
Columns
By Lucia A. Silecchia
On the Feast of the Epiphany, the 2025 Jubilee Year came to a close as the Holy Doors in Rome were sealed once again. I am sorry to see the Jubilee Year come to an end. I did not visit Rome this year. I did not attend any special jubilee events.
Columnists
By Christina Capecchi
The older I get, the more I crave a practical spirituality — one tied to dirty dishes not pristine libraries, one that recognizes hungry bellies along with hungry hearts.
Local
By Zoey Maraist
The first issue of the new diocese’s newly minted newspaper arrived in mailboxes Jan. 8, 1976.
The Arlington Catholic Herald’s front page told the story of the hundreds of Vietnamese refugees who were resettling in the diocese with the help of the church.
Schools
By Lucas Ojeda
The VI Bots, St. Paul VI Catholic High School’s second-year robotics team, began the 2024–25 FIRST Tech Challenge season working out of a new lab equipped with parts and materials donated by a school family.
Columns
By Soren Johnson
In my local Jiffy Lube waiting room the other day, I felt my irritability index rising as the infomercials and reality-TV shows blared in the background … a futile attempt at drowning out the sound of hydraulic lifts and impact wrenches pulsing from the garage.
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
I am the type of reader who — before ubiquitous cell phones — read everything in front of me, from cereal boxes to every word of the newspaper.
Bishop's Columns
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
As we embark upon this new year 2026, all of us, as citizens and as a nation, have a unique opportunity to reflect on the momentous anniversary that we will commemorate throughout the year to come, namely America’s semiquincentennial — our 250th anniversary.
Local
By Jim Hale
Bishop Loverde thinks that without a regular print publication, Catholics are missing out. “The paper is a way of uniting people throughout the diocese,” he said.
Local
By Kimberley A. Heatherington
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” St. Jerome wrote in the prologue of his commentary on the book of the prophet Isaiah.
