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Following an Oct. 1 Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, Father Justin Gough held a blessing of the animals in honor of the upcoming feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals.
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It took Scott a full year to design and sculpt the nearly three-foot statue of Blessed Seelos, which was erected in March at the Shrine of Ss. Peter in Paul. Blessed Seelos walked the very grounds where his likeness now stands, when he served as pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul and prefect of students at a Redemptorist seminary in Cumberland from 1857 to 1862.
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Mother Seton’s copy of Thomas à Kempis’ 15th-century classic is coming home.
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What is a saint’s relic? A relic can be one of three things: part of the body of a saint (a first-class relic); an item, such as a piece of clothing, used by a saint (a second-class relic); or an object touched to a first or second class relic (a third-class relic).
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For those who have never heard Mother Teresa’s famous “Gospel on five fingers,” simply imagine the petite and wizened founder of the Missionaries of Charity counting out these words on the digits of a hand — your hand: “You. Did. It. To. Me.”
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Risking and ultimately losing their lives to shelter Jews persecuted by the Nazis, “the martyrs Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children” were models of “evangelical love,” Pope Francis said.
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The Relic of St. Jude tour begins in Chicago Sept. 9 at St. John Cantius Church. Scheduled stops for the remainder of 2023 include parishes in Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa, followed by Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan.
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On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in the nation’s capital, noted that the campus ministry program there was making history of its own, with the blessing and dedication of its new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center.
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With a beatification Mass for the Ulma family set for Sept. 10, the Vatican emphasized that all nine members of the Polish family are considered martyrs, including the child that was born during the massacre.
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At the heart of St. John Henry Newman’s conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism was his study of the early Christians, the fathers of the church.
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The Ulma family was killed in Markowa for hiding eight Jews, including a 3-year-old girl, in their home.
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Like St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first native North American woman to be canonized, all Christians must embrace their unique call to service of God and neighbor as well as the personal crosses that come with it, Pope Francis said.
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