Strange things happen; one day when Mark Weber made a delivery to the office of Today’s Catholic Newspaper, he was hired to design ads and write copy. That was 20 years ago and he remained on the job until years after his 90th birthday. Most recently, he maintained the obituary section and the Clipping Service, proofed the paper and was a ghost writer. His favorite authors are Jim Bishop, John Sandford and John Grisham. For amusement, he writes lyrics, parodies and verse. He enjoys reading, cooking and dislikes yardwork.
“Boat people” is, with no regrets, a term rarely heard these days. But when it was current, it referred to individuals so desperate for freedom that they openly embraced personal […]
Other jubilarians include: Father Edmund Sylvia, CSC Father Phillip Widmann Father Michael Driscoll Father Glenn Kohrman Father Thadeus Balinda Sixty-year jubilee for Father Schmitt It could be said that young […]
By Mark Weber FORT WAYNE — The 22 Mother Teresa devotees bound for Rome for her canonization this September 4 are fortunate to be led by someone who followed her […]
By Mark Weber It was appropriate that on the feast day of St. Isidore the Farmer, 55 parishioners of St. John the Baptist parish in Fort Wayne showed up on […]
By Mark Weber Art is his name and art is his game. Arthur Cislo, longtime member of St. John the Baptist parish in Fort Wayne and master of all media […]
By Mark Weber LAGRO — There have been many “Friends of St. Patrick” in Lagro, going back to the French missionaries who first brought the faith to the Wabash valley […]
By Mark Weber FORT WAYNE — Although they walked, rode bikes or took public transportation to high school, this was the class that ushered in the atomic age, associated high […]
By Mark Weber Click here for more photos from the celebration. FORT WAYNE — Just as Ireland’s patron saint used the shamrock to symbolize the Trinity, the trefoil at St. […]
By Mark Weber Bishop John M. D’Arcy, bishop-emeritus, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, conducted a brief dedicatory ceremony at the Catholic Cemetery of Fort Wayne on Saturday, May 21. Recognizing […]
By Mark Weber FORT WAYNE — When 14-year-old (Andrew) Thu Pham fled Vietnam as a boat person, he had no idea that in the grand scheme of things, he was […]
By Mark Weber Can you name them … the locations of six Catholic churches in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend honoring St. Patrick? In Arcola, a small community west […]
By Mark Weber FORT WAYNE — As super blasts of firecrackers, an Asian gong and folks dressed in lucky red filled St. Patrick Church in Fort Wayne, the Vietnamese Catholic […]
