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Catholic Charities helps refugee student settle into Woodbridge school

Special to the Catholic Herald

When diocesan Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services is asked to assist refugees coming to this country, its assistance doesn’t stop with the parents. Staff help children, who are sometimes bewildered or frightened, navigate new schools with the new faces, languages, rules and subjects. Diocesan Catholic Charities President and CEO Stephen Carattini joined MRS School …

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5/2/24

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Hundreds celebrate a school anniversary and groundbreaking

By Ashleigh Kassock

Doing what others say is impossible is pretty special but beating the odds while wearing orange is even better. Such was the case for Father John P. Mosimann, pastor of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fredericksburg, April 20. He donned a bright orange construction hat and made his gold-plated shovel eat dirt …

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5/2/24

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Priests and high school students go head to head in soccer game

Catholic Herald Staff Report

St. John Paul the Great High School in Potomac Shores hosted a friendly game of soccer April 18 between its students and Priests United, the team comprised of diocesan priests and seminarians. Father Nicholas Blank, parochial vicar of St. John the Evangelist Church in Warrenton, scored the first goal of the game but the priests …

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5/2/24

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Priests to mark ordination jubilees

Ten priests in the diocese will mark jubilees this year, including four who will celebrate 50 years as a priest and six who will mark 25 years since their ordinations. The jubilarians will celebrate at a luncheon with Bishop Michael F. Burbidge May 8. Read their bios below. 50 years Fr. Horace (Tuck) H. Grinnell …

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