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Around the Diocese: November 10, 2024

Local Choir Members Join Mass, Procession in Toledo As the 40 Days for Life campaign continues throughout the country during this time of Eucharistic Revival, the Diocese of Toledo recently […]

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Catholic Veteran Recalls Service: ‘It Was Faith that Held Us Together’

Carl Beckstedt was left speechless during his emotional first visit to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was a bittersweet moment for the Vietnam Veteran to recognize friends […]

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Event at St. Jude Raises Awareness of Human Trafficking

“Think back to when you were coming of age,” Cameron Shackelford told the crowd. “You were trying to figure out who you were and, in many situations, wanted to feel […]

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Red Mass Calls Holy Spirit to Guide Lawyers, Civil Servants

Twice a year in October – once in Fort Wayne and once in South Bend – a special Mass is held to ask for the Holy Spirit to guide in […]

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Small Victories: Black Catholics and St. Augustine Parish

About 96 years ago, Holy Cross Father George O’Connor caught word of the plight of seven or eight families who had migrated north from Pascagoula, Mississippi. While Catholic, they had […]

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Students Urged to Model the Saints at All-Schools Mass in South Bend

Following the account of Jesus’ thrice-repeated question to St. Peter, heard during the Gospel reading (John 21:15-17), Father Mark Gurtner, Vicar General of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, told […]

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Diocesan Confirmation Retreat: A Day of Faith and Fellowship

More than 300 area youths participated in the bi-annual Diocesan Confirmation Retreat on Saturday, October 19, at Saint Joseph High School in South Bend. Throughout the day, the students were […]

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‘Our Local Parish’ Aims to Bring Catholic Communities Closer

For the majority of Catholics, the lived experience of faith is most often shaped by what takes place at their local parish, shaped by the pastor, assistant clergy, and other […]

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Around the Diocese: October 20, 2024

FORT WAYNE – On Friday, October 11, Nicole Hahn, Director of the Secretariat for Communications of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, was embraced by friends and family as she […]

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‘Barn Talks’ Help Community Learn, Play, Pray Together

Once a month on a Friday evening from June to October, cars begin pulling into the driveway of the Woodiel family’s home in rural Goshen. When Tom and Amanda Woodiel, […]

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‘Ador168’ Aims to Increase Devotion to the Eucharist

“Familiarity makes our appreciation of things lessen over time,” Deacon Joe Dietz told Today’s Catholic. “People who work at the Louvre in Paris don’t stare at the ‘Mona Lisa’ every […]

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Local Pilgrims Walk with the Saints in Rome, Assisi

ROME – If he wasn’t studying for the priesthood in Rome, it’s likely that Nicholas Monnin would have been lying prostrate on the floor of his home parish, St. Matthew […]