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Good Leaders, Good Shepherds begins curriculum

FORT WAYNE — Twenty-five priests from the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend have embarked on a curriculum for clergy specifically designed to help them overcome today’s challenges of a diminishing […]

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Deacon with healing ministry visits during 40 Days for Life

SOUTH BEND — Deacon Vince Ricciardi and five other people will bring their healing ministry to the brand-new Life Center on Ironwood Circle in South Bend March 19-21. Relics of St. […]

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Three new CYO champions crowned in year-end tournament

By Michelle Castleman FORT WAYNE — In its 77th running, three new Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) boys’ champions were crowned in the much-anticipated year-end tournament. This year’s showdowns were once […]

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Preparation key to first Communion for second-grade students

“Receiving Holy Communion connects, in the Person of Christ, our love of God and love of neighbor.” — Father Daniel Scheidt Catholic second-grade teachers throughout the Church are preparing their […]

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ICCL and CYO teams play for diocesan championships

By Michelle Castleman FORT WAYNE — The annual Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) vs. Inter-City Catholic League (ICCL) showdown between the two ends of the diocese took place on Saturday afternoon, […]

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Higginbotham produces ‘Songs for a Lenten Journey’

MISHAWAKA — The Year of Faith, established this year by Pope Benedict XVI, is a “summons to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the One Savior of the […]

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SPARC ready to burst into fire for Christ

By Vince LaBarbera CHURUBUSCO — Sixteen men sat around four, eight-foot tables arranged in a U-shape in the basement of St. John Bosco Church in Churubusco on a Lenten Wednesday […]

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Early childhood programs to assist low income families advance

INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosier lawmakers passed a pilot program initiative to grant 1,000 low income children access to a high-quality prekindergarten education. The proposal, HB 1004, which passed the Indiana House […]

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Today’s Catholic Life Spring issue now available

The “Spring” issue of Today’s Catholic Life is available at parishes across the diocese. Pick up your copy and see what springtime has to offer — rebirth and renewal with […]

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Pope Benedict’s pontificate marked by teaching, call to return to faith

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During his almost eight-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI impressed the world as a teacher, guiding Catholics to the sources of the faith and urging modern society […]

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A bill to regulate chemical abortion, improve informed consent advances

By Brigid Curtis Ayer INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to regulate chemical abortion in Indiana and another to improve informed consent law for abortion cleared its first hurdle Feb. 20, when […]

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Series of talks, Mass, enshrinement honors St. Gianna Beretta Molla

By Ann Carey MISHAWAKA — Most Catholics can relate to St. Gianna Beretta Molla, for she lived the ordinary kind of life many Catholics live: She had a spouse and […]