The Rev. Michael Thompson had a problem. Sunday, Nov. 15, was the 100-year anniversary of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Alexandria. The day was the end to a full year of events marking the ...

Catholic diocese’s suit over alley by Alexandria housing project dismissed. Church officials had contested the city’s vacation of an alleyway near a Catholic school that developers included as ...

Joanne Pereira sings the closing hymn during Sunday Mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va., Nov. 27. According to the first study of its kind, African-American Catholics in the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (ABC7) — As normal, it was a packed house at St. Mary’s in Old Town for Sunday’s evening mass – the only difference was its name. “Our official name now is the Basilica ...