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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated a special Mass for the annual Women Religious Convocation at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax Sept. 6.
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By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
As we approach autumn, we may choose to think of the coming weeks and months as a season of opportunity and new beginnings. Young people across Northern Virginia are already back in school, embarking on a new year filled with promise.
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By Zoey Maraist
Last fall, Ariana Bosse and her family left a tight-knit group of friends and their military life in small-town Georgia to move closer to her husband’s new civilian job in busy Northern Virginia. Before they left, a friend who had previously lived in Virginia told Bosse about the mothers’ group at St. Louis Church in Alexandria.
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By Kathleen Goss
When his son Joseph 20, fell into a septic tank at their family farm in 2008, 17 years ago this month, Tom Vander Woude jumped in and held him above the muck until rescuers arrived and pulled Joseph to safety. Tom died in the process.
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Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV poses for a photo holding a copy of “Brick Chapel to Basilica,” a history of the 230-year-old Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria, and a rosary, both given to him by a basilica parishioner at the Vatican Aug. 23.
Columns
By Lucia A. Silecchia
The start of every new semester is packed with activities that always manage to take me by surprise, even though they happen every term.
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
The house is quiet today.
It’s been quiet previously, of course. Quiet when the girls were away at camp. Quiet when they spent the whole day at an amusement park. Quiet when they slept over at a friend’s house. But this is a different sort of quiet.
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
Have you heard? Science has isolated a substance that destroys a woman’s sex drive. It’s called “wedding cake.”
So according to the (lame) joke, once a woman gets married, she loses interest in sex. Oddly, statistics have consistently proven this wrong. Back when I was researching these things, study after study showed the same thing:
Columns
By Sister Constance Veit
For many years, our religious community was best known in the United States as half of a college sports parody comparing the worst teams to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Local
By Anna Donofrio
At Marymount University in Arlington, faculty, staff, students and religious gathered for the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit at the campus’ Sacred Heart of Mary Chapel Sept. 3. But the annual Mass had an additional significance this year. The Mass, celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, continued the university’s yearlong celebration of its 75th […]
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