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How Catholic Charities is creating Generation Zero with Stay the Course

Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, Catholic Charities introduced a new concept in its efforts to eradicate poverty in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: Generation Zero, the first generation of […]

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Two new books give parents ideas to help raise kids Catholic

By Regina Lordan Throughout his papacy, St. John Paul II called on parents to recommit themselves to the vows they made in matrimony and again during their children’s baptisms: to […]

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Seminarians seek repeat in Cupertino Classic

Priests aim to reassert basketball dominance Bishop Dwenger High School, Fort Wayne, will host the fifth annual Cupertino Classic basketball game on Thursday, Dec. 27. Once again, diocesan seminarians will […]

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Consecrated virgin named to BBC 100 Women of 2018 list

Jessica Hayes of Fort Wayne attracted international news coverage when she became a consecrated virgin in August 2015. Hayes’ faith put her back in world news again in late November […]

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Finding Inspiration:

Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters offer thoughts on the founding fathers of Victory Noll HUNTINGTON — Father John Joseph Sigstein founded the community that would become Our Lady of […]

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Around the Diocese: December 9, 2018

Abortion business’ progress halted in South Bend FORT WAYNE — The most recent hearing in an ongoing licensing dispute between Whole Woman’s Health Alliance and the Indiana State Department of […]

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Rest in Peace: December 9, 2018

Fort Wayne Shirley Morken, 76, St. Therese Anne Crew, 59, St. Therese Mishawaka Jean Gryp, 92, Queen of Peace Plymouth Frances Houin, 87, St. Michael South Bend Chester J. Kolber, […]

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Weekly schedule of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades

Sunday, December 9: 8:30 p.m. — Mass, St. Francis Chapel, University of Saint Francis Monday, December 10: 6:30 p.m. — Meeting of World Youth Day Pilgrims, St. Francis Xavier Parish Hall, Pierceton Tuesday, […]

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Finding peace in the sanctuary of the heart – ‘Meditations for Advent’

Once a well-known and highly sought-after French philosopher and theologian, Father Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet has become a name unfamiliar to most. In the late 15th century, Father Bossuet memorized the Scriptures […]

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Festivities honor Our Lady of Guadalupe

Celebrations of the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe will include Masses, re-enactments of Mary’s apparitions to St. Juan Diego, renditions of the “Mañanitas” birthday song traditionally sung to […]

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‘Here I am, Lord,’ say women at Rejoice retreat

Click here for more photos from the retreat. “In Luke 1:38, when the angel Gabriel comes to Mary and asks her to be the mother of God, Mary answers, ‘Behold, […]

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‘She is always with us’: The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Click here for a listing of festivities honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe around the diocese. For the last 70 years, the presence of Our Lady of Guadalupe was visible everywhere […]