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WJLA Spotlight on Education: Students gather more than 10,000 pounds of corn for the needy.

WJLA ABC 7 | August 14, 2018

After a few simple instructions, 77 young people went to work on two Virginia farms picking corn for the poor. Fourteen-year-old Andrew Burns told ABC7 News, "Every corn we put into our backpack I was just thinking, this is going to someone who needs it."

St. Thomas More gave witness to strong marriage, family, home, says priest

Religion News Service | August 13, 2018

“We should remember Thomas More for his domestic witness, the witness of his own marriage, family, and home,” Fr. Paul Scalia said at a conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville. “His defense of marriage wasn’t purely intellectual. He knew marriage and the family from the inside. He knew the joy in the virtue that was being threatened by its undoing.”

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Diocesan Press Releases

Statement regarding Diocese of Harrisburg priest accused of sexual abuse

In reviewing information recently published by the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., regarding clergy and seminarians of that diocese who had been the subject of allegations of sexual abuse of children, the Diocese of Arlington has learned that one of the priests named – Father Anthony J. McGinley – worked as a professor and chaplain at Marymount University in Arlington from

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Arlington Catholic Herald

Divorce through a child’s eyes

Jen Cox was 7 years old when she learned her parents were getting a divorce. They were standing in the doorway. She was playing in the cul-de-sac with her neighborhood friends. Her mother was crying when they called her over and told her.