Molly Gettinger

Marketing & Brand Manager

Previously serving Today’s Catholic as a freelance journalist, Molly joined the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Secretariat for Communications in 2016. Her role focuses on branding, graphic design, web design, and engagement strategy. When she's not wondering at the world through the eyes of her children, her passion is answering Pope Francis’ invitation to “abandon the complacent attitude that says: 'We have always done it this way.' I invite everyone to be bold and creative in this task of rethinking the goals, structures, style and methods of evangelization in their respective communities” (Evangelii Gaudium, 33).

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CRS chapters: a movement to change the world, first, locally

More than 250 million children globally are at risk of failing to thrive. Factors such as poverty, poor nutrition, limited access to education, disease and regional unrest prevent the development […]

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Diocesan World Youth Day: A celebration of faith for high school students

The 18 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have been challenging for high school students. Canceled athletics, graduations, dances and more uprooted the fabric of their lives, creating, […]

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Diocese expands virtual programming

Secretariat for Evangelization and Discipleship provides faith formation opportunities online When the COVID-19 pandemic broke across the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, diocesan schools, churches and ministries had to make […]

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Mission Day affirms importance of authentic formation

For first-year Saint Joseph High School science teacher Nicole Nemeth, teaching is about more than instructing her students: It’s about formation. This includes holistic formation, both of her students and […]

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On All Souls Day, bishop and Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration pray for departed loved ones

Click here for more photos. “Pope Benedict XVI has a great quote about purgatory being a chance for God to ‘put the pieces back together’ in our broken, disordered lives,’” […]

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Opening one’s home to others: Ruggaber family answers the call to ‘love thy neighbor’

2012: That’s the first year the Ruggaber family opened their home and invited someone else to stay in their spare basement room. Their resident? A friend from their undergraduate days […]

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Archbishop celebrates Holy Cross School language program

When one imagines the daily tasks of an archbishop in the Catholic Church, turning his head like a penguin, bending it like a giraffe or raising his shoulders like a […]

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Beyond being a veteran: How one man’s continued service has transformed lives

Matted grass and dirt: This was Julius’ home. His companions? The bugs that crawled beside him. His possessions? A scooter used to get around and whatever clothes he managed to […]

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St. Therese School mourns passing of new principal

Education is more than a profession: It is a vocation. This reality is imbued throughout the faculty and staff of St. Therese School, Fort Wayne, where the staff’s mission is […]

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Stories of Service: How dedicating a year or more of service after college can have a lasting impact

“Every project I do, every report I write and every call I make has to have a real benefit to the world around me, or it isn’t worth doing.” These […]

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Former principal, athletic director passes away

John F. Gaughan passed away Thursday, March 16, at the age of 89. He lived a lifetime of commitment to education and to Catholic Schools, including serving as a teacher […]

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From struggle to development: a Dominican’s narrative of the Catholic Church in Vietnam

  “My family was the only family area in that area that was Catholic.” These are the words Sister Kim, a Dominican religious from Vietnam. Currently a master of divinity […]