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Lent and the Filet-O-Fish Dilemma

Do you ever wish we Catholics could shift culture as effectively as we shift fast food menus during Lent? There’s a huge billboard on my block that just changed out […]

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Experiencing Our Tangible Faith with Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Catholic faith is a faith of the senses, especially during the celebration of the Eucharist. We taste Our Lord Himself, receiving Him into our mouths at holy Communion; we […]

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Surrogacy and the Selfish Commodification of Children

At the beginning of 2024, Pope Francis offered strong public criticism of surrogate motherhood. His willingness to speak out on this important topic has helped to pull surrogacy out of […]

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Tragic Fire Spotlights Faulty Safeguards for Indiana Renters

Despite the deaths of six children in a South Bend home where code violations are the suspected cause of a recent fire, efforts to protect Indiana renters from unsafe conditions […]

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Lent with ‘The Chosen’

By Sister Hosea Rupprecht (OSV News) – Season 4 of “The Chosen,” the wildly popular series on the life of Jesus that began its existence as a crowd-funded streaming series, […]

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News Briefs: February 11, 2024

Dicastery Warns Changing Words in Sacraments Can Make Them Invalid VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Officials with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said they continue to receive reports […]

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Catholic Schools Week Offers Special Events, Fun

From Sunday, January 28, through Saturday, February 3, students and staff from Catholic schools across the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend participated in the annual National Catholic Schools Week, during […]

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Diocesan Seminarians Reflect on First Semester of New Program of Priestly Formation

You don’t have to ask seminarian Paul Cline twice about the highlight of his first year of religious formation. “We have Mass every day, and life revolves around Jesus and […]

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Bishop Rhoades: Like St. John Bosco, Anchor Your Life to Mary, the Eucharist

Scores of the faithful at St. John Bosco Church in Churubusco gathered on Wednesday, January 31, to close out the parish’s 40 Hours devotion. They came to sing and pray, […]

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Confirmation Masses Spring 2024

St. Matthew Cathedral, South Bend – March 16 at 10 a.m. Holy Family Parish, South Bend St. John the Baptist Parish, South Bend St. Patrick Parish, Walkerton St. Therese, Little […]

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This Lent, Let God Move You

“You are merciful to all, O Lord, and despise nothing that you have made. You overlook people’s sins, to bring them to repentance, and you spare them, for you are […]

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Weekly Schedule of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades

Saturday, February 10: 10 a.m. – Meeting of Diocesan Pastoral Council, Westminster Hall, Grace College, Winona Lake Sunday, February 11: 10 a.m. – Mass at St. Gaspar del Bufalo Church, […]