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Notre Dame Choir Takes Center Stage at Fort Wayne Cathedral

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne welcomed special guests on Sunday, January 14, as the University of Notre Dame’s distinguished folk choir performed during Mass on the […]

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Priest Assignment

The Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, has made the following assignment. Reverend Lee Allen Fortin, from Parochial Vicar at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, […]

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Eucharistic Small Groups Successful in Diocese

“Jesus and the Eucharist,” a video and small-group study created for the National Eucharistic Revival, has gotten rave reviews from parishioners across the diocese since it was made available last […]

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‘Love Them Like God Loves Them’

St. Henry Parish Partners with M.I.S.F.I.T.S. Ministry to Serve the Homeless in Fort Wayne The sun had just gone down on this particularly cold and blustery first Sunday in January […]

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Around the Diocese: January 14, 2024

St. Pius X Students Sing in Rome Spanning late December and into the new year, members of the St. Pius X Parish community in Granger traveled to Rome to participate […]

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For St. Matthew’s Sacristan, Sewing Is in Her DNA

Mending and sewing was embroidered into her framework, and St. Matthew Cathedral Sacristan Anna Stein has spent the last 20-plus years providing clergy and religious with hand-tailored vestments and more. […]

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Christ the King Partners with Parish in Bangladesh

In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, the Holy Father wrote at length about the need for communities to be willing to extend their help […]

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Young People Gather in St. Louis at SEEK Conference

The week of New Years – from Monday, January 1, to Friday, January 5 – I was in St. Louis with 24,000 of my closest friends at the annual SEEK […]

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Bishops Urge Faithful to Mark Day of Prayer for the Unborn

Each year on January 22, the Church in the United States honors the dignity of life in the womb by celebrating the solemn and important Day of Prayer for the […]

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Priest Assigment

The Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, has made the following assignment. Reverend Bartholomew Okorie, as Parochial Vicar at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Elkhart, effective […]

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Andrew Dinners Aim to Promote Priestly Discernment Among Young Men

Each year, the Vocations Office of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend hosts two dinners – one in South Bend and one in Fort Wayne – to help offer resources […]

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Bishop Celebrates Epiphany at St. Matthew Cathedral

On the solemnity of Epiphany, a day in which the Church remembers the Magi’s visit to the infant Jesus, Bishop Rhoades celebrated Mass at St. Matthew Cathedral in South Bend. […]