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WASHINGTON — Based on responses to a questionnaire sent to all U.S. dioceses, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate estimates there are about 19,000 deacons in the United States today.
St. Martin de Porres Senior Center in Alexandria celebrated the completion of its renovations at a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 25. The center is working on a reopening plan to welcome seniors back after being closed for more than a year due to the pandemic.
When I was a kid, my dad told me over and over again, “In life, you’ve got to get comfortable being uncomfortable.” My mom wasn’t much easier. She didn’t allow us to use the word “bored” and even convinced us that it was a swear word.
MUNDELEIN, Ill. — After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman identified as Maria Antonia.
Each year on the third Sunday of June, Americans observe Father’s Day to honor and express gratitude for fathers and the instrumental role they play in family life. During the present Year of St. Joseph (Dec. 8, 2020-Dec 8., 2021), Father’s Day for Catholics in the U.S. can take on a special focus in reminding us how Christ himself honored his earthly father and how St. Joseph can be an inspiring example for all fathers to emulate.
After suffering child sexual abuse in the 1960s, Maria (name changed for confidentiality) spent the next several decades in the church feeling invisible.
Arlington Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde celebrated the closing Mass of the annual conference of the Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary, Northern States District, at St. Joseph Church in Alexandria last month. Josephite Father Donald M. Fest, pastor of St. Joseph, concelebrated.
MUNDELEIN, Ill. — Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in Mundelein.
In Pádraig Ó Tuama's book, "In the Shelter," he tells a story about a young woman traveling through Europe in the 1980s. In France, she meets a man and falls in love for the first time. They agree to meet at an embassy in Rome the following week, and on the appointed day, she goes there. But he doesn't show up. She goes the next day, and the next, but to no avail.
The church pronounced the year of St. Joseph as an opportunity to grow closer to her patron saint, as well we should. Yet it’s also a chance to more deeply appreciate the men among us who emulate St. Joseph in so many ways — something I’ve tried to do in reflecting on the recent deaths of two great men I knew personally.
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