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Athletes Dedicate Year to Christ at ‘Walk of the Knights’

At the beginning of the 2023 school year, Bishop Luers High School Chaplain Father Paolo Degasperi felt inspired to inaugurate the “Walk of the Knights,” a more than three-mile pilgrimage […]

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St. Robert Bellarmine Parish Breaks Ground on New Rectory

On Sunday, August 18, Bishop Kevin Rhoades visited St. Robert Bellarmine parish in North Manchester to celebrate Mass and bless the grounds where construction will soon begin on a new […]

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Back-To-School Throughout the Diocese

All photos provided via Facebook. New Year Takes Flight at St. Vincent

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Donors Help Realize Dream of Stained-Glass Windows

When the current St. Pius X Church building was designed, former Pastor Monsignor William Schooler remembers that the parish had to make a $1 million budget cut before construction. “So, […]

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Solace for Mind, Body, and Soul: Mass Held for Troubled at St. Felix in Huntington

God desires to lend a hand in times of trial. The idea that He wants to help His people was at the heart of Bishop Rhoades’ homily at St. Felix […]

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St. John the Evangelist Parish Opens New Office Space

A project nearly two years in the making came to fruition with the official ribbon cutting on the new parish offices for St. John the Evangelist in Goshen, which are […]

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Congress Experience Inspires Diocesan Seminarians from Nigeria to Serve Christ

On the opening morning of the National Eucharistic Congress, as tens of thousands of Catholics congregated inside Lucas Oil Stadium, hundreds of members of the clergy – and those training […]

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‘I’ve Inherited Something Really, Really Good’

After Eight Years Away, Monsignor Michael Heintz Returns to the Diocese as Pastor of St. Pius X “I love parish life,” Monsignor Michael Heintz told Today’s Catholic. “I’m a theologian, […]

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Bishop Peter Smith: From South Africa to Rome by Way of South Bend

Pope Francis recently appointed Bishop Peter L. Smith, Auxiliary Bishop of Portland, Oregon, as the ecclesiastical adviser to CHARIS, a Vatican agency charged with serving and unifying the worldwide Catholic […]

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New Heritage and Resource Center Will Share Histories of Women Religious at Saint Mary’s College

On Friday, July 26, officials from Saint Mary’s College and several orders of women religious broke ground on the college’s new Heritage and Research Center (HARC), which will house the […]

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Weekly Schedule of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades

Thursday, August 15: 10:45 a.m. – Mass with Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, Heritage Pointe, Warren Saturday, August 17: 1 p.m. – Mass for the Sick, St. Felix Catholic […]

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‘Lake Week’ Offers Seminarians a Chance for Rest, Fellowship

There comes a time when young men need to get away and spend time with their friends, and the seminarians of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend are no different. […]