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Blessed palms become ashes, symbol of repentance
A dark smudge of ashes on the forehead sets Christians apart on Ash Wednesday. Even celebrities have been seen on television marked with this visible sign of repentance. Catholics tend to […]
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Around the Diocese: February 14, 2021
OSV Institute for Catholic Innovation launched HUNTINGTON – In an ongoing effort to answer St. Pope John Paul II’s call for a New Evangelization that is new in its ardor, […]
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Enter intentionally into Lent: three guides
Three new books published by Our Sunday Visitor offer distinct ways to turn away from the busyness and challenges of daily life and enter into the penitential season of Lent […]
Diocese
Celebrating the feast of St. Katharina Kasper, PHJC foundress
Beatified in 1978 and canonized in 2018, St. Katharina Kasper’s life mission was joyful, loving service to God’s children, especially the poor and the underserved. The Poor Handmaids of Jesus […]
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Parish music minister to compose melodic retirement
The soundtrack of Jim Didier’s life is liturgical. For six decades, worshippers at two Fort Wayne parishes have drawn closer to the Lord through the vocation of the musician, vocalist […]
Diocese
Beyond ‘I do’: helping couples plan for a lifetime of marriage
St. John Chrysostom once wrote about society that “there is nothing which so welds our life together as the love of man and wife.” Throughout the ages following the life […]
Diocese
Tips to improve marriages center on prayer
Keeping God at the center of a couple’s marriage is a tip agreed on by local Catholic marriage experts. In honor of National Marriage Week Feb. 7-14, Today’s Catholic asked […]
Bishop
Weekly schedule for Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades
Sunday, February 7: 10 a.m. — Mass, St. Aloysius Church, Yoder Monday, February 8: 10 a.m. — Meeting of the Bishop’s Cabinet, Archbishop Noll Center, Fort Wayne Monday, February 8: 12 p.m. — Virtual […]
Diocese
World Day of the Sick — For priests, pandemic increases ministry’s urgency, danger
World Day of the Sick is Feb. 11. Visiting the sick is one of the seven corporal works of mercy. In ordinary times, parish priests, deacons and lay eucharistic ministers […]
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Pro-life enthusiasm outshines cold, pandemic
Students from Marian High School, Mishawaka, and Christ the King and St. Matthew Cathedral parishes in South Bend, as well as homeschooled students, attended a Mass offered to “pray for […]
Diocese
‘We love to be around students’ — Teachers as glad as students to be back at school
Coming back to school in the fall was a dream come true for many teachers across the Fort Wayne – South Bend diocese. Getting back to in-person instruction was something […]
Diocese
The Catholic school value proposition: faith and family
There is power in a community pulling together to bring love, comfort and support to those of its members who are hurting and in need. Bethany Dick has witnessed this […]