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Young Adults Learn How to Cope with Mental Health Struggles

Young adults gathered at 2Toms Brewing Company in Fort Wayne on Tuesday, January 16, for the opening session of the 2024 Theology on Tap winter series to hear from Beth […]

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Diocesan Youths March for Life in Indianapolis

Nearly 200 young people from the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend traveled to Indianapolis on Monday, January 22, to join their pro-life peers from across the state at the 2024 […]

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‘I AM HERE’: Personal Testimonies Share the Power of the Eucharist

In June of 2022, the Archdiocese of Detroit launched a project in conjunction with the National Eucharistic Revival that aimed to foster in the faithful a deeper sense of devotion […]

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Father Bob Keeps Praying as He Waits for a Kidney

Father Robert Van Kempen (known to all as “Father Bob”), Pastor of St. Mary of the Annunciation Church in Bristol, has been waiting for a kidney for a couple of […]

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Notre Dame Choir Takes Center Stage at Fort Wayne Cathedral

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne welcomed special guests on Sunday, January 14, as the University of Notre Dame’s distinguished folk choir performed during Mass on the […]

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Eucharistic Small Groups Successful in Diocese

“Jesus and the Eucharist,” a video and small-group study created for the National Eucharistic Revival, has gotten rave reviews from parishioners across the diocese since it was made available last […]

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‘Love Them Like God Loves Them’

St. Henry Parish Partners with M.I.S.F.I.T.S. Ministry to Serve the Homeless in Fort Wayne The sun had just gone down on this particularly cold and blustery first Sunday in January […]

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Around the Diocese: January 14, 2024

St. Pius X Students Sing in Rome Spanning late December and into the new year, members of the St. Pius X Parish community in Granger traveled to Rome to participate […]

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For St. Matthew’s Sacristan, Sewing Is in Her DNA

Mending and sewing was embroidered into her framework, and St. Matthew Cathedral Sacristan Anna Stein has spent the last 20-plus years providing clergy and religious with hand-tailored vestments and more. […]

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Christ the King Partners with Parish in Bangladesh

In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, the Holy Father wrote at length about the need for communities to be willing to extend their help […]

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Bishop Celebrates Epiphany at St. Matthew Cathedral

On the solemnity of Epiphany, a day in which the Church remembers the Magi’s visit to the infant Jesus, Bishop Rhoades celebrated Mass at St. Matthew Cathedral in South Bend. […]

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Eucharistic Congress Offers ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Opportunity 

As 2024 begins, many will use the beginning of a new year to embark on a weight loss journey, commit to reading more books, vow to exercise more, and get […]